Aconcourse is a place wherepathways orroads meet, such as in ahotel, aconvention center, arailway station, anairport terminal, ahall, 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.
Examples of concourses include:
![Earnley Concourse, West Sussex, 2009[a]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aEarnley_concourse_West_Sussex.jpg)
More recently, "concourse" is often used to refer to a situation where people come together inonline presence, even if they do not physically come together in reality. An example of such anonline community is theIEEE Student Concourse, as well as variousonline shopping concourses.
