Concourse Meaning
/ˈkɒŋkɔː(ɹ)s/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal, or providing access to and linking the platforms in a railway terminus.
nounAn airport terminal.
Sentence Examples
The restaurant is located on the concourse level.
From the street you come into a big station concourse where the counters are.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Passengers rushed through the busy airport ____ to reach their departure gate.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The bustling airline passengers quickly hurried across the busy airport ____.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English concours, from Middle French concours and its etymon Latin concursus, concursum, from concurrere (“to run together”). See concur. Doublet of concours.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The focal point of the N.Y.C., Grand Central Station in New York, is probably the world's best known railway station - and with good reason. The main line concourse alone is more than 120ft high and wide, and over 250ft long."
— 1961 June, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States”, in Trains Illustrated, page 356:
"On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game."
— 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
"About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the Concourſe of curious People coming to him at his Houſe in Redriff, made a ſmall Purchaſe of Land, with a convenient Houſe, near Newark in Nottinghamſhire, his native Country; where he now lives retired, yet in good eſteem among his Neighbours."
— 1726 October 28, Richard Sympson [pseudonym], “The Publisher to the Reader”, in [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), pages iv–v:
"When we arrived at the hall we found a much greater concourse than I had expected."
— 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
"Down in the concourses at half-time, football and Christmas collide to make excitable children of us all."
— 2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Passengers rushed through the busy airport ____ to reach their departure gate.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The bustling airline passengers quickly hurried across the busy airport ____.