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concourse

Noun

Meaning

A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.

An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place.

The place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies.

An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet.

Concurrence; cooperation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed. Fanny Kemble

The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms. Richard Bentley

Their language and the derivations of their language - religion, letters, metaphysics - all presuppose idealism. The world for them is not a concourse of objects in space; it is a heterogeneous series of independent acts. It is successive and temporal, not spatial. Jorge Luis Borges

I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women. Ally Carter

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy. Jonathan Swift

Whether I'm sitting on a railway concourse in Brussels or pottering down the canals of South Western France or hurtling along a motorway in Croatia, I feel way more at home than I do when I'm trying to get something to eat in Dallas or Sacramento. I love Europe and to me, that's important. Jeremy Clarkson

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