'Course' definitions:
Definition of 'course'
From: WordNet
adverb
As might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill" [syn: naturally, of course, course] [ant: unnaturally]
noun
Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes" [syn: course, course of study, course of instruction, class]
noun
A connected series of events or actions or developments; "the government took a firm course"; "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available" [syn: course, line]
noun
General line of orientation; "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast" [syn: course, trend]
noun
A mode of action; "if you persist in that course you will surely fail"; "once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place" [syn: course, course of action]
noun
A line or route along which something travels or moves; "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river" [syn: path, track, course]
noun
A body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy" [syn: class, form, grade, course]
noun
Part of a meal served at one time; "she prepared a three course meal"
noun
(construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks" [syn: course, row]
noun
Facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport; "the course had only nine holes"; "the course was less than a mile"
verb
Move swiftly through or over; "ships coursing the Atlantic"
verb
Move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: run, flow, feed, course]
verb
Hunt with hounds; "He often courses hares"
Definition of 'Course'
From: GCIDE
- Course \Course\ (k[=o]rs), n. [F. cours, course, L. cursus, fr. currere to run. See Current.]
- 1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. [1913 Webster]
- And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. --Acts xxi. 7. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The ground or path traversed; track; way. [1913 Webster]
- The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. --Pennant. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance. [1913 Webster]
- A light by which the Argive squadron steers Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore. --Dennham. [1913 Webster]
- Westward the course of empire takes its way. --Berkeley. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument. [1913 Webster]
- The course of true love never did run smooth. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws. [1913 Webster]
- By course of nature and of law. --Davies. [1913 Webster]
- Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior. [1913 Webster]
- My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- By perseverance in the course prescribed. --Wodsworth. [1913 Webster]
- You hold your course without remorse. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 8. A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry. [1913 Webster]
- 9. The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn. [1913 Webster]
- He appointed . . . the courses of the priests --2 Chron. viii. 14. [1913 Webster]
- 10. That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments. [1913 Webster]
- He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 11. (Arch.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building. --Gwilt. [1913 Webster]
- 12. (Naut.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 13. pl. (Physiol.) The menses. [1913 Webster]
- In course, in regular succession.
- Of course, by consequence; as a matter of course; in regular or natural order.
- In the course of, at same time or times during. "In the course of human events." --T. Jefferson.
- Syn: Way; road; route; passage; race; series; succession; manner; method; mode; career; progress. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Course'
From: GCIDE
- Course \Course\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coursed (k?rst)); p. pr. & vb. n. Coursing.]
- 1. To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue. [1913 Webster]
- We coursed him at the heels. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To run through or over. [1913 Webster]
- The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Course'
From: GCIDE
- Course \Course\, v. i.
- 1. To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'course'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- academic specialty,
- act,
- adit,
- advance,
- advancement,
- advancing,
- affluence,
- afflux,
- affluxion,
- agora,
- aim,
- air lane,
- algorithm,
- ambit,
- amphitheater,
- angular motion,
- antepast,
- approach,
- aqueduct,
- archery ground,
- area,
- arena,
- array,
- arsis,
- articulation,
- ascending,
- ascent,
- assuredly,
- athletic field,
- attack,
- auditorium,
- axial motion,
- azimuth,
- backflowing,
- background,
- backing,
- backward motion,
- badminton court,
- band,
- bank,
- baseball field,
- basketball court,
- bear garden,
- bearing,
- beat,
- bed,
- bedding,
- belt,
- bent,
- billiard parlor,
- boil,
- bout,
- bowl,
- bowling alley,
- bowling green,
- boxing ring,
- broil,
- Brownian movement,
- bull ring,
- buzz,
- by all means,
- campaign,
- campus,
- canal,
- canvas,
- career,
- casserole,
- catena,
- catenation,
- certainly,
- chain,
- chain reaction,
- chaining,
- channel,
- chase,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circus,
- class,
- classical education,
- climbing,
- cockpit,
- coliseum,
- colosseum,
- commutation,
- commute,
- compass direction,
- concatenation,
- concourse,
- condensation trail,
- conduct,
- conduit,
- confluence,
- conflux,
- connection,
- consecution,
- continuum,
- contrail,
- core curriculum,
- couche,
- course of action,
- course of study,
- court,
- cover,
- cover ground,
- creed,
- cricket ground,
- croquet ground,
- croquet lawn,
- crosscurrent,
- crossing,
- cruise,
- culinary masterpiece,
- culinary preparation,
- current,
- curriculum,
- cycle,
- dart,
- dash,
- deck,
- definitely,
- defluxion,
- descending,
- descent,
- design,
- dessert,
- diamond,
- diastole,
- direction,
- direction line,
- discipline,
- dish,
- dispatch,
- ditch,
- do,
- dog,
- downbeat,
- downflow,
- downpour,
- downward motion,
- drift,
- driftage,
- drive,
- drone,
- duct,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- egress,
- elective,
- endless belt,
- endless round,
- entrance,
- entree,
- entremets,
- excursion,
- execution,
- exit,
- expedition,
- fairway,
- falcon,
- fare,
- fare forth,
- fashion,
- fetch,
- field,
- file,
- filiation,
- flight,
- flight path,
- flit,
- flood,
- floor,
- flow,
- flow back,
- flow in,
- flow out,
- flowing,
- fluency,
- flush,
- flux,
- follow the hounds,
- football field,
- form,
- forum,
- forward motion,
- forwardal,
- forwarding,
- fowl,
- fry,
- furtherance,
- furthering,
- gallery,
- gamut,
- gang,
- general education,
- general studies,
- glacial movement,
- glaciarium,
- globe-trotting,
- go,
- go along,
- go hunting,
- go over,
- go-ahead,
- going,
- golf course,
- golf links,
- gradation,
- grand tour,
- gridiron,
- grill,
- ground,
- guiding principles,
- guise,
- gun,
- gush,
- gym,
- gymnasium,
- hall,
- hasten,
- hawk,
- heading,
- headway,
- helmsmanship,
- help,
- helping,
- hie,
- hippodrome,
- hound,
- hum,
- humanities,
- hunt,
- hunt down,
- hurry,
- hustle,
- ice rink,
- inclination,
- Indian file,
- indubitably,
- infield,
- inflow,
- ingress,
- issue,
- itinerary,
- jack,
- jacklight,
- jaunt,
- journey,
- journeying,
- junket,
- lay,
- layer,
- lecture,
- ledge,
- leg,
- level,
- liberal arts,
- lie,
- line,
- line of action,
- line of direction,
- line of march,
- lineage,
- lines,
- links,
- lists,
- locale,
- locomotion,
- main current,
- main dish,
- mainstream,
- major,
- make,
- manner,
- manner of working,
- march,
- marketplace,
- mat,
- means,
- measure,
- measures,
- method,
- methodology,
- milieu,
- mill run,
- millrace,
- minor,
- MO,
- mode,
- mode of operation,
- mode of procedure,
- modus operandi,
- monotone,
- motion,
- mounting,
- move,
- move along,
- move on,
- movement,
- moving,
- naturally,
- navigation,
- nexus,
- no doubt,
- oblique motion,
- obviously,
- ocean trip,
- of course,
- ongoing,
- onrush,
- onward course,
- open forum,
- orbit,
- order,
- orientation,
- outfield,
- outflow,
- outing,
- oval,
- overlayer,
- overpass,
- overstory,
- package tour,
- palaestra,
- parade ground,
- pass,
- pass over,
- pass through,
- passage,
- passageway,
- path,
- patrol,
- pattern,
- pendulum,
- perambulate,
- peregrinate,
- peregrination,
- pererrate,
- performance,
- periodicity,
- pilgrimage,
- piloting,
- piste,
- pit,
- place,
- plan,
- plan of action,
- plate,
- platform,
- playground,
- playing field,
- playroom,
- pleasure trip,
- plenum,
- plunging,
- ply,
- point,
- policy,
- polity,
- polo ground,
- pool hall,
- poolroom,
- portion,
- position paper,
- positively,
- pour,
- powder train,
- practice,
- precinct,
- primrose path,
- principles,
- prize ring,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- process,
- program,
- progress,
- progression,
- progressiveness,
- promotion,
- proseminar,
- prowl after,
- public square,
- pulse,
- purlieu,
- putting green,
- quadrivium,
- quarter,
- queue,
- race,
- racecourse,
- racket court,
- radial motion,
- random motion,
- range,
- range over,
- rank,
- reconnoiter,
- recurrence,
- reflowing,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- refresher course,
- regression,
- regurgitate,
- reticulation,
- retrogression,
- revolution,
- ride to hounds,
- ring,
- rink,
- rising,
- road,
- roast,
- roll,
- roll on,
- rolling,
- rolling on,
- rotation,
- round,
- round trip,
- route,
- routine,
- row,
- rubberneck tour,
- run,
- rush,
- safari,
- sail,
- sally,
- sashay,
- scale,
- scamper,
- scene,
- scene of action,
- scenery,
- scent,
- scheme,
- scientific education,
- scoot,
- scope,
- scour,
- scour the country,
- scout,
- scurry,
- sea lane,
- sea trip,
- seam,
- second helping,
- seminar,
- sequel,
- sequence,
- series,
- service,
- serving,
- set,
- setting,
- shakedown cruise,
- shelf,
- shikar,
- shoot,
- shortcut,
- side dish,
- sideward motion,
- signs,
- single file,
- sinking,
- site,
- skating rink,
- soaring,
- soccer field,
- spate,
- specialty,
- spectrum,
- speed,
- spell,
- sphere,
- spoor,
- sport,
- sprint,
- squared circle,
- squash court,
- stadium,
- stage,
- stage set,
- stage setting,
- stalk,
- start,
- steerage,
- steering,
- step,
- sternway,
- still-hunt,
- story,
- stratum,
- stream,
- stretch,
- string,
- study,
- style,
- subdiscipline,
- subject,
- subsiding,
- substratum,
- succession,
- superstratum,
- sure,
- surely,
- surge,
- surge back,
- swath,
- sweep,
- swing,
- system,
- systole,
- tack,
- tear,
- technical education,
- technique,
- tendency,
- tennis court,
- tenor,
- terrain,
- the drill,
- the general tendency,
- the how,
- the main course,
- the way of,
- theater,
- thesis,
- thickness,
- thread,
- tide,
- tier,
- tilting ground,
- tiltyard,
- time spirit,
- tone,
- topsoil,
- tour,
- tourism,
- touristry,
- traces,
- track,
- trade route,
- trail,
- train,
- traject,
- trajectory,
- trajet,
- transit,
- travel,
- travel over,
- travel through,
- traveling,
- traverse,
- trek,
- trench,
- trend,
- trip,
- trivium,
- trough,
- troughing,
- troughway,
- tunnel,
- turf,
- turn,
- undercurrent,
- underlayer,
- understory,
- understratum,
- undertow,
- undoubtedly,
- upbeat,
- upward motion,
- vapor trail,
- vector,
- voyage,
- wake,
- walk,
- water flow,
- watercourse,
- way,
- wayfare,
- wend,
- wheel,
- windrow,
- wise,
- wrestling ring,
- Zeitgeist,
- zone
Words containing 'Course'
- Coursed,
- Coursing,
- In course,
- In the course of,
- Of course,
- courses,
- Base course,
- Blocking course,
- Coursed rubble,
- Coursing joint,
- Footing course,
- Fore course,
- Foundation course,
- Heading course,
- Margin of a course,
- Race course,
- Raking course,
- Random courses,
- Sill course,
- Stretching course,
- To lay the course,
- Water course,
- change course,
- change of course,
- collision course,
- correspondence course,
- course catalog,
- course catalogue,
- course credit,
- course of action,
- course of instruction,
- course of lectures,
- course of study,
- course session,
- crash course,
- damp course,
- elective course,
- extension course,
- golf course,
- in due course,
- links course,
- main course,
- matter of course,
- mizzen course,
- orientation course,
- refresher course,
- required course,
- To take one's own course,
- matter-of-course,
- topping-out course,
- damp-proof course