Pronunciation
- (RP) enPR: kôs, IPA: /kɔːs/
- (GA) enPR: kôrs, IPA: /kɔːɹs/, /kɔɹs/
- (rhotic, horse-hoarse) enPR: kōrs, IPA: /ko(ː)ɹs/
- (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /koəs/
- (Tasmania) IPA: /kɜːs/
course (plural courses)
- A sequence of events.
- The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.
- A normal or customary sequence.
- c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- The course of true love never did run smooth.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Day and night, / Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course.
- A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
- Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
- A learning program, as in a school.
- I need to take a French course.
- 1661, John Fell (bishop), The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond ↗
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
- (especially in medicine) A treatment plan.
- 1932, Agatha Christie, The Thirteen Problems
- Miss Clark, alarmed at her increasing stoutness, was doing a course of what is popularly known as banting.
- 1932, Agatha Christie, The Thirteen Problems
- A stage of a meal.
- We offer seafood as the first course.
- The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
Bible, 2 Chron. viii. 14 - He appointed […] the courses of the priests.
- A path that something or someone moves along.
- His illness ran its course.
- The itinerary of a race.
- The cross-country course passes the canal.
- A racecourse.
- The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
- (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
- (golf) A golf course.
- (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
- The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south.
- (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
- A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.
- (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
- Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.
- (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) menses#English|Menses.
- A row or file of objects.
- (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
- On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.
- (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
- (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
- (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
- (music) One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to played together.
- Portuguese: curso
- Portuguese: curso
- French: cours
- German: Kurs
- Italian: corso
- Portuguese: curso, disciplina, matéria
- Russian: курс
- Spanish: curso
- Russian: курс
- Portuguese: turno
- Portuguese: percurso
- French: parcours
- German: Strecke
- Italian: percorso, itinerario
- Portuguese: percurso
- Russian: курс
- Spanish: ruta
- French: trajectoire
- German: Bahn
- Italian: traiettoria
- Portuguese: trajetória
- Russian: траекто́рия
- Spanish: trayectoria
- Portuguese: fileira
- Russian: ряд
course (courses, present participle coursing; past and past participle coursed)
- To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
- The oil coursed through the engine.
- Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
- 2013, Martina Hyde, "Is the pope Catholic?", The Guardian, 20 September 2013
- He is a South American, so perhaps revolutionary spirit courses through Francis's veins. But what, pray, does the Catholic church want with doubt?
- (transitive) To run through or over.
- The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.
- (transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene vi]:
- We coursed him at the heels.
- (transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.
- to course greyhounds after deer
course (not comparable)
- (colloquial) Alternative form of of course
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