Concourse vs Meeting - What's the difference?
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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.
A large group of people; a crowd.
* , The Publisher to the Reader
* Prescott
The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence.
* 1662 - Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , First Day:
* Sir M. Hale
* Sir Isaac Newton
An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.
(obsolete) concurrence; cooperation
* Barrow
(uncountable) The action of the verb to meet .
A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
An encounter between people, even accidental.
A place or instance of junction or intersection.
A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
*1939 , (John Steinbeck), (The Grapes of Wrath) , p. 20:
*:You use ta give a good meetin' . I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.
Concourse is a related term of meeting.
As nouns the difference between concourse and meeting
is that concourse is 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 while meeting is (uncountable) the action of the verb to meet .As a verb meeting is
.concourse
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Noun
(wikipedia concourse) (en noun)- About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
- Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade.
- ... there was only wanting the concourse of rains ...
- The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter.
- The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses.
- The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding.
Usage notes
In sense "open space", particularly used of indoor spaces, by contrast with (m), (m), (m), etc. However, may be used for outdoor spaces as well, primarily high-traffic areas in front of a building.Coordinate terms
* (open space) (l), (l)meeting
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Verb
(head)Noun
- We need to have a meeting about that soon.
- What has the meeting decided.
- They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
- Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.