course
noun
1. education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
- he took a course in basket weaving
Similar word(s): class
Definition categories: act, didactics, education, instruction, pedagogy, teaching
2. a connected series of events or actions or developments
- the government took a firm course
Similar word(s): line
Definition categories: group, series
3. general line of orientation
- the river takes a southern course
Similar word(s): trend
Definition categories: location, direction, way
4. 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
Definition categories: act, action
5. a line or route along which something travels or moves
- the course of the river
Definition categories: object, line
6. a body of students who are taught together
Similar word(s): class, form, grade
Definition categories: group, assemblage, gathering
7. part of a meal served at one time
- she prepared a three course meal
Definition categories: food, aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals
8. (construction) a layer of masonry
- a course of bricks
Similar word(s): row
Definition categories: man–made, bed, layer
9. 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
Definition categories: man–made, facility, installation
Sentences with course as a noun:
- The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.
- I need to take a French course.
- We offer seafood as the first course.
- His illness ran its course.
- The cross-country course passes the canal.
- The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south.
- A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.
- Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.
- On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.
verb
1. move swiftly through or over
Definition categories: motion, cover, cross, track, traverse
2. move along, of liquids
Similar word(s): feed, flow, run
Definition categories: motion, move
3. hunt with hounds
- He often courses hares
Definition categories: competition, hunt, run
Sentences with course as a verb:
- The oil coursed through the engine.
- Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
- to course greyhounds after deer