Concourse
A concourse is a place where pathways or roads meet, such as in a hotel, a convention centre, a railway station, an airport terminal, a hall, or other space.
The term is not limited to places where there are literally pathways or roadways or train tracks joining. An alternate meaning now is "an open space or hall (as in a railway terminal) where crowds gather."[1] In this meaning as a place where crowds gather, while many persons in any crowd no doubt have followed different paths in their lives to get to the place, there need not be notable specific roadways leading to the place.
Examples
Examples of concourses include:
- Meeting halls
- Universities
- Railway stations
- Conference centres
- Hotels
- Airport terminals
- Shopping malls or portions of shopping malls which are often called "shopping concourses"
- Sports arenas and stadiums
- Sixth Form Common rooms
Gallery
Outdoor concourses
Concourse outside City Hall, London.
Concourse outside Wembley Arena, 2008
Public transport concourses
Leeds City bus station concourse, 2007
Leeds railway station concourse, 2009
Liverpool Street concourse, 2009
Los Angeles International Airport Terminal 4 concourse, 2006
London Paddington station concourse, The Lawn, 2009
St Pancras shopping concourse during Christmas, 2011
St Pancras entrance concourse, 2009
Waterloo Station former Eurostar check-in concourse, 2009
Car park concourses
Braehead car park concourse, 2008
Contemporary usage
More recently, "concourse" is often used to refer to a situation where people come together in online presence, even if they don't come together in real physical life. An example of such an online community is the IEEE Student Concourse, as well as various online shopping concourses.
See also
References
- ↑ "Definition of Concourse". Merriam-Webster.
- ↑ This local village name for its common land may imply an early usage of the word, concourse.
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