Editing Concourse

{{Short description|Place where pathways or roads meet}}
{{other uses}}
{{For|concours|Concours (disambiguation)}}

A '''concourse''' is a place where [[Trail|pathways]] or [[road]]s 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>{{cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concourse|title=Definition of Concourse|date=18 April 2024|publisher=[[Merriam-Webster]]}}</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.

==Examples==
Examples of concourses include:
*[[Airport terminal]]s
*[[Convention center|Conference centres]]
*[[Hotels]]
*Meeting halls
*[[Railway stations]]
*[[Shopping malls]] or portions of shopping malls which are often called "shopping concourses"
*Sports [[arena]]s and [[stadium]]s
*[[Concourse Program at MIT|Universities]]

==Gallery==
===Outdoor concourses===
<gallery>
Image:Earnley concourse West Sussex.jpg|[[Earnley]] Concourse, [[West Sussex]], 2009{{efn|This local village name for its common land may imply an early usage of the word, ''concourse''.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}}}
Image:ASDA concourse Llandudno.jpg|[[Asda]] supermarket concourse, [[Llandudno]], 2007
Image:City Hall concourse by Rob Farrow.jpg|Concourse outside City Hall, [[London]].
Image:Wembley Arena concourse by Chris Downer.jpg|Concourse outside [[Wembley Arena]], 2008
</gallery>

===Public transport concourses===
<gallery>
File:Moynihan Train Hall interior, Dec 27 2022.jpg|The interior of the [[Moynihan Train Hall]] at [[Pennsylvania Station (New York City)|Pennsylvania Station]] in [[New York City]], 2022
File:GCT in Blizzard of 2015.jpg|Grand Central Terminal's [[Main Concourse]], [[Manhattan]], 2015
File:Leeds bus station concourse.jpg|[[Leeds City bus station]] concourse, 2007
File:Leeds City railway station concourse.jpg|[[Leeds railway station]] concourse, 2009
File:Liverpool Street concourse by Thos Nugent.jpg|[[Liverpool Street station|Liverpool Street]] concourse, 2009
File:Paddington Station The Lawn.jpg|[[London Paddington station]] concourse, ''The Lawn'', 2009
File:St Pancras shopping concourse.jpg|[[St Pancras railway station|St Pancras]] shopping concourse during Christmas, 2011
File:St Pancras concourse by David Lally.jpg|[[St Pancras railway station|St Pancras]] entrance concourse, 2009
File:Waterloo International Station concourse.jpg|[[London Waterloo station|Waterloo Station]] former [[Eurostar]] check-in concourse, 2009
File:Heathrow Airport Terminal 2, London, England - Diliff.jpg|Terminal 2 departures area of [[Heathrow Airport|London Heathrow Airport]]
File:JFK Terminal 5 Ticketing and Check-In.jpg|Terminal 5 of the [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]] in New York City
Image:port-authority-bus.jpg|Gates 1-85 on the lower level of the [[Port Authority Bus Terminal]] in New York City 
</gallery>

===Car park concourses===
<gallery>
Image:Braehead car park concourse.jpg|[[Braehead]] car park concourse in [[Scotland]], 2008
</gallery>

==Contemporary usage==
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 also==
*[[Concourse at Landmark Center]]
*[[Concourse Program at MIT]]
*[[Concourse on High]] (Bahá'í Faith)
*[[Grand Concourse (Bronx)]]

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Concourses}}
{{Wiktionary|concourse}}

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080517124432/http://www.ieee.org/students IEEE Student Concourse]

[[Category:Footpaths]]
[[Category:Railway stations]]