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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
concourse \con"course\, n. f. concours, l. concursus, fr.
concurrere to run together. see concur.
1. 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. --sir m. hale.
1913 webster
2. 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. --prescott.
1913 webster
3. the place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies.
obs.
1913 webster
the drop will begin to move toward the concourse of
the glasses. --sir i.
newton.
1913 webster
4. an open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an
open space in a park where several roads meet.
1913 webster
5. concurrence; cooperation. obs.
1913 webster
the divine providence is wont to afford its
concourse to such proceeding. --barrow.
1913 webster
see also:
concur
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
concourse
n 1: a large gathering of people syn: multitude, throng
2: a wide hallway in a building where people can walk
3: a coming together of people syn: confluence
see also:
multitude throng confluence
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
189 moby thesaurus words for "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
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