Concourse
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A concourse is a place where pathways or roads meet, such as in a hotel, a convention center, 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."<ref name=merriam>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.
ExamplesEdit
Examples of concourses include:
- Airport terminals
- Conference centres
- Hotels
- Meeting halls
- Railway stations
- Shopping malls or portions of shopping malls which are often called "shopping concourses"
- Sports arenas and stadiums
- Universities
GalleryEdit
Outdoor concoursesEdit
- Earnley concourse West Sussex.jpg
Earnley Concourse, West Sussex, 2009Template:Efn
- City Hall concourse by Rob Farrow.jpg
Concourse outside City Hall, London.
- Wembley Arena concourse by Chris Downer.jpg
Concourse outside Wembley Arena, 2008
Public transport concoursesEdit
- Moynihan Train Hall interior, Dec 27 2022.jpg
The interior of the Moynihan Train Hall at Pennsylvania Station in New York City, 2022
- GCT in Blizzard of 2015.jpg
Grand Central Terminal's Main Concourse, Manhattan, 2015
- Leeds bus station concourse.jpg
Leeds City bus station concourse, 2007
- Leeds City railway station concourse.jpg
Leeds railway station concourse, 2009
- Liverpool Street concourse by Thos Nugent.jpg
Liverpool Street concourse, 2009
- Paddington Station The Lawn.jpg
London Paddington station concourse, The Lawn, 2009
- St Pancras shopping concourse.jpg
St Pancras shopping concourse during Christmas, 2011
- St Pancras concourse by David Lally.jpg
St Pancras entrance concourse, 2009
- Waterloo International Station concourse.jpg
Waterloo Station former Eurostar check-in concourse, 2009
- Heathrow Airport Terminal 2, London, England - Diliff.jpg
Terminal 2 departures area of London Heathrow Airport
- JFK Terminal 5 Ticketing and Check-In.jpg
Terminal 5 of the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City
- Port-authority-bus.jpg
Gates 1-85 on the lower level of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City
Car park concoursesEdit
Contemporary usageEdit
More recently, "concourse" is often used to refer to a situation where people come together in online presence, even if they do not physically come together in reality. An example of such an online community is the IEEE Student Concourse, as well as various online shopping concourses.
See alsoEdit
- Concourse at Landmark Center
- Concourse Program at MIT
- Concourse on High (Bahá'í Faith)
- Grand Concourse (Bronx)