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The Meaning of course

  • (n.) The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
  • (n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.
  • (n.) Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
  • (n.) Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
  • (n.) Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
  • (n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
  • (n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
  • (n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
  • (n.) The menses.
  • (v. t.) To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
  • (v. t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
  • (v. t.) To run through or over.
  • (v. i.) To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.
  • (v. i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.

Synonyms

path , form , family , program , stratum , grade , division , programme , year , class , course of instruction , course of study , trend , socio-economic class , syllabus , social class , line , row , track , curriculum , course of action , category , billet , short letter , assembly line , crease , melodic phrase , argumentation , railway line , argument , bloodline , pedigree , product line , parentage , melodic line , rail line , channel , blood , contrast , business line , job , phone line , line of products , line of credit , occupation , credit line , cable , personal line of credit , line of reasoning , pipeline , descent , demarcation , stemma , communication channel , bank line , agate line , line of work , dividing line , stock , business , furrow , lineage , wrinkle , line of merchandise , note , origin , personal credit line , tune , line of descent , melody , telephone circuit , line of business , air , blood line , transmission line , strain , telephone line , seam , crinkle , production line , subscriber line , ancestry , logical argument , vogue , style , tendency , movement , drift , data track , rail , route , runway , raceway , racecourse , cart track , caterpillar track , way , caterpillar tread , cut , way of life , rails , trail , lead , itinerary , cartroad , racetrack , running , ground level , figure , tier , flesh , frame , mark , kind , chassis , physical body , grad , soma , score , human body , level , manikin , sort , mannikin , mannequin , conformation , phase , word form , cast , gradation , configuration , variant , degree , pattern , bod , signifier , shape , descriptor , variety , anatomy , physique , contour , var. , material body , manakin , build , wrangle , run-in , rowing , words , quarrel , dustup , run , feed , flow , operate , feed in , hunt , fly the coop , work , scat , run away , move , turn tail , eat , flux , range , guide , function , lam , melt down , track down , break away , head for the hills , extend , hunt down , endure , bunk , take to the woods , consort , execute , fall , feast , bleed , carry , scarper , go , unravel , prey , lean , play , die hard , race , pass , fertilise , fertilize , run for , black market , give , persist , incline , hang , draw , hightail it , be given , prevail , campaign , tend , escape , ladder , ply , menstruate , melt , by nature , naturally , of course , career , charge , flight , passage , line of achievement , public life , rush , traverse , cover , cross , pass over , get over , get across , cut through , cut across

Homophones

coarse , corse

Rhymes

borse , bourse , clotheshorse , coarse , concourse , corse , counterforce , divorce , dorse , endorse , enforce , ensource , force , forse , fourths , gorse , hoarse , horse , intercourse , laforce , midcourse , morse , morss , norse , nourse , perforce , racehorse , reinforce , remorse , sorce , source , torse , torsk , vorce , whitehorse , wilberforce , workforce , workhorse