course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kôs
ipa: /kɔːs/
enpr: kôrs
ipa: /kɔɹs/
other: /koɹs/
homophone: coarse
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
note: rhotic
enpr: kōrs
ipa: /koːɹs/
note: rhotic
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /koəs/
ipa: /kɜːs/
homophone: curse stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /kuːɹs/
ipa: /kʊɹs/
Forms: form: courses
Etymology: From Middle English cours, from Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of cursus and cour.
Senses: examples: text: The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.
glosses: A sequence of events.
examples: text: The course of true love never did run smooth.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: Day and night, / Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: A sequence of events.
A normal or customary sequence.
glosses: A sequence of events.
A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
examples: text: There is but one course for me to follow: I'LL MOIDER THE BUM!
ref: 1958 September 6, Weasel While You Work, spoken by the Barnyard Dawg:
glosses: A sequence of events.
Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
examples: text: Her course will be ‘Communication Studies with Theatre Studies’: God, how tedious, how pointless.
ref: 1992 August 21, Edwina Currie, Diary:
text: Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
topics: education
glosses: A sequence of events.
A learning programme
examples: text: I need to take a French course.
topics: education
glosses: A sequence of events.
A learning programme
a series of lectures or lessons in a particular subject
synonyms: class
examples: text: What's your course in university?
—Business studies. And you?
text: 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[…]
ref: 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond:
topics: education
glosses: A sequence of events.
A learning programme
an educational programme at a college or university leading to an academic degree or vocational qualification.
examples: text: Miss Clark, alarmed at her increasing stoutness, was doing a course of what is popularly known as banting.
ref: 1932, Agatha Christie, The Thirteen Problems:
glosses: A sequence of events.
A treatment plan.
raw_tags: in medicine
examples: text: We offer seafood as the first course.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A sequence of events.
A stage of a meal.
examples: text: He appointed […] the courses of the priests.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 8:14:
glosses: A sequence of events.
The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
examples: text: His illness ran its course.
glosses: A path that something or someone moves along.
examples: text: The cross-country course passes the canal.
glosses: A path that something or someone moves along.
The itinerary of a race.
glosses: A path that something or someone moves along.
A racecourse.
glosses: A path that something or someone moves along.
The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A path that something or someone moves along.
The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A path that something or someone moves along.
A golf course.
examples: text: The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A path that something or someone moves along.
The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
examples: text: A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.
glosses: A path that something or someone moves along.
The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
qualifier: navigation
examples: text: It was curious to Oakfield to be back on the Ferozepore course, after a six months' interval, which seemed like years. How much had happened in these six months!
ref: 1853, William Delafield Arnold, Oakfield; or, Fellowship in the East, section II, page 124:
glosses: A path that something or someone moves along.
The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.
examples: text: Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
examples: text: The bleeding body signifies as a shameful token of uncontrol, as a failure of physical self-mastery particularly associated with woman in her monthly "courses".
ref: 2018, Gail Kern Paster, The Body Embarrassed, Cornell University, page 92:
qualifier: courses
glosses: Menses.
examples: text: On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: A row or file of objects.
A row of bricks or blocks.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
glosses: A row or file of objects.
A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A row or file of objects.
In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: 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 be played together.
Hyponyms: word: bird course
word: crash course
word: due course
alt: MOOC
word: massive open online course
Derived terms: word: access course
word: aftercourse
word: assault course
word: back course
word: belt course
word: Bestuzhev course
word: blocking course
word: change course
word: clerk of the course
word: collision course
word: confidence course
word: conversion course
word: core course
word: correspondence course
word: course authoring tool
word: coursebook
word: course-correct
word: course correction
word: course credit
word: courseless
word: courselike
word: course load
word: courseload
word: coursemate
word: course of action
word: course of events
word: coursepack
word: course to steer
word: courseware
word: coursework
word: course work
word: cross-course
word: damp course
word: double-course
word: e-course
word: forecourse
word: full-course dinner
word: full-course meal
word: full-course yellow
word: golf course
word: gut course
word: horses for courses
english: in course
translation: in course
word: in due course
word: in full course
word: in the course of time
word: let nature take its course
word: main course
word: matter of course
word: midcourse
word: middle course
word: mill course
word: minicourse
word: mizzen course
word: multicourse
word: obstacle course
english: of course my horse
translation: of course my horse
word: of course
word: off course
word: on course
word: ordinary course of business
word: out-of-course
word: out of course
word: palaeocourse
word: par for the course
word: postcourse
word: precourse
word: protection course
word: racecourse
word: refresher course
word: reverse course
word: ridge course
word: ropes course
word: run its course
word: sandwich course
word: service course
word: single-course
word: stay the course
word: stretching course
word: stringcourse
word: subcourse
word: take its course
word: telecourse
word: the course of true love never did run smooth
word: timecourse
word: weeder course