Course Meaning and Definition

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What is the definition Course? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Words ending with Course, Derivations, Antonyms, Example sentences, Synonyms, Words starting with Course, Related sentences, How to pronounce and more...

Word: Course

How to pronounce: kɔːs

Noun

Definitions:

1. The route or direction followed by a ship, aircraft, road, or river.

Example sentences: "The road adopts a tortuous course along the coast"

2. A dish, or a set of dishes served together, forming one of the successive parts of a meal.

Example sentences: "Guests are offered a choice of main course"

3. An area of land set aside and prepared for racing, golf, or another sport.

Example sentences: "One of the benefits of playing golf at new courses are the ideas you pick up."

4. A series of lectures or lessons in a particular subject, typically leading to a qualification.

Example sentences: "A business studies course"

5. A continuous horizontal layer of brick, stone, or other material in a building.

Example sentences: "A continuous render is taken up the sides and over the top of the core material of a wall, the core material being some three courses of mud bricks about forty centimetres high."

6. A pursuit of game (especially hares) with greyhounds by sight rather than scent.

7. The lowest sail on a square-rigged mast.

8. A set of adjacent strings on a guitar, lute, etc., tuned to the same note.

Example sentences: "The early lute was played with a plectrum and had four double courses of strings; during the 15th century a fifth course was added."

Verb

Definitions:

1. (of liquid) move without obstruction; flow.

Example sentences: "Tears were coursing down her cheeks"

2. Pursue (game, especially hares) with greyhounds using sight rather than scent.

Example sentences: "Many of the hares coursed escaped unharmed"

Synonyms:

path

route

trend

pathway

rate of exchange