Definition of concoursenext
as in corridor
a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building airline passengers had to pass through the security checkpoints before being allowed in the concourse

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Recent Examples of concourse Walking from the concourse straight into a hotel lobby and being able to eat, shower, and sleep without leaving the terminal really does something for travel stress and exhaustion levels. Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2026 Of course, downtown has changed since Perron’s Hardee’s days — but from her viewpoint, looking out the floor-to-ceiling windows that separate her small shop from the Wells Fargo Place concourse, things are headed in the right direction. Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026 The neighborhood/area The crown jewel of the Contemporary’s location is without a doubt the Magic Kingdom, which is a short walk away or one stop on the monorail—which stops right inside the hotel on the main concourse. Valerie Marino, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2026 There will be no fancy concourses or luxury boxes here. Chris Johnston, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for concourse
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Noun
  • The tunnel project, the nation's largest infrastructure project, would expand train service between New York and New Jersey along the nation’s busiest rail corridor by adding a new rail tunnel and rehabilitating the existing 115-year-old pair of tunnels under the Hudson River.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Scores of providers sprang up along a corridor stretching west from the San Gabriel Valley through the San Fernando Valley, which now has the highest concentration of hospices in the nation.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The pictures also showed Madonna playing a drum while her children partied in the background; Stella and Estere giving the camera a moody look; Madonna and Akeem with their arms around each other; the three sisters striking a pose in a hallway; and a family photo with Madonna and her five kids.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
  • In the bowels of the arena on Tuesday, two workers were painting a hallway.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The carpal tunnel, located in the wrist, is a narrow passageway that is surrounded by bones and ligaments.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Thought of as the graffiti of its time, the inscriptions also included stories about daily life, sporting events, passions and insults, carved into a passageway that connected Pompeii's theater district to one of its main roads.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026

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“Concourse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concourse. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.

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