concourse

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: con=course

CIDE DICTIONARY

concourse, n. [F. concours, L. concursus, fr. concurrere to run together. See Concur.].

•  A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.  [1913 Webster]

  "The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter."  [1913 Webster]
•  An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place.  [1913 Webster]

  "Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade."  [1913 Webster]
•  The place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies.  [1913 Webster]

  "The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses."  [1913 Webster]
•  An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet.  [1913 Webster]
•  Concurrence; coöperation.  [1913 Webster]

  "The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

concourse, n.
1 a crowd.
2 a coming together; a gathering (a concourse of ideas).
3 an open central area in a large public building, a railway station, etc.

Etymology

ME f. OF concours f. L concursus (as concur)

THESAURUS

concourse

accompaniment, accordance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, alliance, approach, articulation, assemblage, assemblee, assembly, assignation, association, asymptote, at home, ball, bond, bottleneck, bracketing, brawl, cahoots, call-up, canvass, caucus, census, clustering, co-working, coaction, coincidence, collaboration, collection, collectivity, colligation, collision course, collocation, colloquium, collusion, combination, combined effort, commission, committee, communication, comparison, concatenation, concentralization, concentration, concert, concerted action, conclave, concomitance, concordance, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congeries, conglomeration, congregation, congress, conjugation, conjunction, connection, consilience, conspiracy, conventicle, convention, convergence, converging, convocation, cooperation, copulation, corralling, correspondence, council, coupling, course, crosscurrent, crossing, current, dance, data-gathering, date, defluxion, diet, downflow, downpour, drift, driftage, eisteddfod, festivity, fete, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, focalization, focus, forgathering, forum, funnel, gathering, get-together, gush, hookup, housewarming, hub, inflow, ingathering, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, inventory, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, juxtaposition, knotting, levee, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meet, meeting, merger, merging, mill run, millrace, mobilization, muster, mutual approach, narrowing gap, onrush, onward course, outflow, pairing, panel, parasitism, party, plenum, prom, quorum, race, radius, rally, reception, rendezvous, rodeo, roundup, run, rush, saprophytism, seance, session, set, shindig, simultaneity, sit-in, sitting, soiree, spate, splice, spokes, stream, surge, survey, symbiosis, symposium, synchronism, synergy, synod, tangent, tide, tie, tie-in, tie-up, trend, turnout, undercurrent, undertow, unification, union, united action, water flow, yoking

ROGET THESAURUS

concourse

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

Convergence

N convergence, confluence, concourse, conflux, congress, concurrence, concentration, convergency, appulse, meeting, corradiation, assemblage, resort, asymptote, converging, convergent, confluent, concurrent, centripetal, asymptotical, asymptotic, confluxible.