Definitions for course

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course course

Spelling: [kawrs, kohrs]

IPA: /kɔrs, koʊrs/

Course is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in course (ceorsu).

Definitions for course

noun

1. a direction or route taken or to be taken.
2. the path, route, or channel along which anything moves:
3. advance or progression in a particular direction; forward or onward movement.
4. the continuous passage or progress through time or a succession of stages:
5. the track, ground, water, etc., on which a race is run, sailed, etc.:
6. a particular manner of proceeding:
7. a customary manner of procedure; regular or natural order of events:
8. a mode of conduct; behavior.
9. a systematized or prescribed series:
10. a program of instruction, as in a college or university:
11. a prescribed number of instruction periods or classes in a particular field of study.
12. a part of a meal served at one time:
13. Navigation. the line along the earth's surface upon or over which a vessel, an aircraft, etc., proceeds: described by its bearing with relation to true or magnetic north. a point of the compass.
14. Nautical. the lowermost sail on a fully square-rigged mast: designated by a special name, as foresail or mainsail, or by the designation of the mast itself, as fore course or main course.
15. Building Trades. a continuous and usually horizontal range of bricks, shingles, etc., as in a wall or roof.
16. one of the pairs of strings on an instrument of the lute family, tuned in unison or in octaves to increase the volume.
17. the row of stitches going across from side to side in knitting and other needlework (opposed to wale).
18. Often, courses. the menses.
19. a charge by knights in a tournament.
20. a pursuit of game with dogs by sight rather than by scent.
21. golf course.
22. a race.

Idioms

1. in due course, in the proper or natural order of events; eventually:
2. of course, certainly; definitely: in the usual or natural order of things:

verb (used with object)

1. to run through or over.
2. to chase; pursue.
3. to hunt (game) with dogs by sight rather than by scent.
4. to cause (dogs) to pursue game by sight rather than by scent.
5. Masonry. to lay (bricks, stones, etc.) in courses.

verb (used without object)

1. to follow a course; direct one's course.
2. to run, race, or move swiftly:
3. to take part in a hunt with hounds, a tilting match, etc.

Origin of course

1250-1300; Middle English co(u)rs (noun) Anglo-French co(u)rs(e), Old French cours Latin cursus “a running, course,” equivalent to cur(rere) “to run” + -sus, variant of -tus suffix of verb ac

Examples for course

Of course this isn't all mine; it includes ma's and Psyche's.

Its biggest asset, of course, is the steely Atwell, who never asks you to feel sorry for Carter despite all the sexism around her.

And of course, Rod, being Rod, goes for it a hundred percent; his mouth drops open and he says, ‘What?’

In the course of this process he fell into adventures, some of them, perhaps, unedifying.

But of course it will be only fair to sis to lay the matter before her just as it is.

Why, of course not, Uncle Peter; only I had to look around some at first,—for a year or so.

The U.S. military has said it is too early to make any conclusions, other than the war is on course.

All of these far future speculations, of course, depend on a series of “ifs.”

The prize was bestowed on him who ran the course without extinguishing his torch.

“Competition is there, of course, but I think there is enough business for everyone as long as the demand is there,” he says.