different between concourse vs meeting

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French concours, from Latin concursus, from concurrere (“to run together”). See concur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??k??(?)s/

Noun

concourse (plural concourses)

1. 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.
   • 2018, March 1, Tusdiq Din on BBC Sport, Mohamed Salah: Is Liverpool striker's success improving engagement with Muslim fans?

     In east London in October 2013, during a game between West Ham and Manchester City, a small group of home Muslim fans - with no prayer room available - tried to offer their Maghrib (sunset) prayer on a concourse under the main stand at the club's former home Upton Park.
2. A large group of people; a crowd.
   • 1856-1859, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Phillip II

     Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade.
3. 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:

     ... there was only wanting the concourse of rains ...

   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     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.

4. An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.
5. (obsolete) concurrence; cooperation
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Pleasantness of Religion (sermon)

     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 plaza, place, square, etc. However, may be used for outdoor spaces as well, primarily high-traffic areas in front of a building.

Coordinate terms

• (open space): circus, plaza

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mi?t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mit??/, [?mi???]
• Rhymes: -i?t??
• Homophone: meting

Etymology 1

From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English m?ting, ?em?ting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet +? -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.

Noun

meeting (countable and uncountable, plural meetings)

1. (gerund, uncountable) The act of persons or things that meet.

2. A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.

   We need to have a meeting about that soon.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     In a meeting with government officials, Moon noted that China was “much more advanced” than South Korea in rain-making technologies, his spokesman said.

3. (collective) The people at such a gathering.

   What has the meeting decided.

4. An encounter between people, even accidental.

   They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.

5. A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.

   Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.

6. (rural US, dated) 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.

7. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

   Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.

Usage notes

• When "meeting" is used to mean a Quaker administrative group, it is often qualified by an indication of how often the group holds regular business meetings, such as "monthly meeting", "quarterly meeting", or "yearly meeting". When the qualifier is omitted, the term is assumed to mean monthly meeting.

Synonyms

• assembly
• convocation
• gathering

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English m?tende, *?em?tende, from Proto-Germanic *m?tijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *m?tijan? (“to meet”), equivalent to meet +? -ing.

Verb

meeting

1. present participle of meet

Anagrams

• teeming

Czech

Alternative forms

• mítink

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mi?t??k]

Noun

meeting m

1. meeting

Further reading

• meeting in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• meeting in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ti?/

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. large, public gathering (not used in other senses of "meeting")

   un meeting aérien

   an air show

Further reading

• “meeting” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi.tin?/, /?mi.tin/
• Hyphenation: mee?ting

Noun

meeting m (invariable)

1. meeting (gathering of people for a purpose)

   Synonym: riunione

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• mítingue (prescriptive)

Etymology

Borrowed from English meeting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /?mi.t?.?(?)/, [?mi.t?.?(?)]

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. conference (a formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.)

   Synonym: conferência

2. meeting, gathering (a gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.)

   Synonym: encontro

3. meet (a sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.)

   Synonym: prova

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mitin/, [?mi.t??n]

Noun

meeting m (plural meetings)

1. meeting