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.
2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football
Down in the concourses at half-time, football and Christmas collide to make excitable children of us all.
(RQ:Swift Gullive), The Publisher to the Reader
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.
Prescott
Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade.
The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence.
1662 - Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileos Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World'', First Day:
... there was only wanting the concourse of rains ...
Sir M. Hale
The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter.
Sir Isaac Newton
The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses.
An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.