concourse

Meaning

Noun

• A large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal, or providing access to and linking the platforms in a railway terminus.
• A large group of people; a crowd.
• The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence.
• An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.
• concurrence; cooperation

Origin

• Borrowed from French concours, from Latin concursus, from concurrere. See concur.