Concourse
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."[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.
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ExamplesEdit
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
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Outdoor concoursesEdit
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Earnley Concourse, West Sussex, 2009[2]
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Concourse outside City Hall, London.
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Concourse outside Wembley Arena, 2008
Public transport concoursesEdit
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Leeds City bus station concourse, 2007
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Leeds railway station concourse, 2009
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Liverpool Street concourse, 2009
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Los Angeles International Airport Terminal 4 concourse, 2006
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London Paddington station concourse, The Lawn, 2009
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St Pancras shopping concourse during Christmas, 2011
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St Pancras entrance concourse, 2009
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Waterloo Station former Eurostar check-in concourse, 2009
Car park concoursesEdit
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Braehead car park concourse, 2008
Contemporary usageEdit
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 alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ "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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