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Course   /kɔrs/   Listen
Course

noun
1.
Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings.  Synonyms: class, course of instruction, course of study.  "Flirting is not unknown in college classes"
2.
A connected series of events or actions or developments.  Synonym: line.  "Historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available"
3.
General line of orientation.  Synonym: trend.  "The northeastern trend of the coast"
4.
A mode of action.  Synonym: course of action.  "Once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place"
5.
A line or route along which something travels or moves.  Synonyms: path, track.  "The track of an animal" , "The course of the river"
6.
A body of students who are taught together.  Synonyms: class, form, grade.
7.
Part of a meal served at one time.
8.
(construction) a layer of masonry.  Synonym: row.
9.
Facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport.  "The course was less than a mile"
adverb
1.
As might be expected.  Synonyms: naturally, of course.
verb
(past & past part. coursed; pres. part. coursing)
1.
Move swiftly through or over.
2.
Move along, of liquids.  Synonyms: feed, flow, run.  "The Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
3.
Hunt with hounds.



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"Course" Quotes from Famous Books



... charity in which we are both interested, and she has asked me to help. It is on a Saturday afternoon and evening, and I wondered if I might ask you to take part in the little concerts. Whistling is always popular, and you do it so charmingly. I would send the car for you, and take you home, of course, and be so very much indebted. You don't ...
— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... to have known poor deluded Stockdale, and not to have laughed at him more than to have wept for him—so the catastrophe of this author's literary life is as finely in character as all the acts. That catastrophe, of course, ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli

... pouncing on their victims—rode howling around the camp. Their figures hideously marked with paint, were visible from time to time; their long hair streaming in the wind, their cloaks of skins floating in their rapid course, and their piercing cries of defiance and bravado, giving them the appearance of demons, to whom they have justly ...
— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid

... necessity in the doctrine of the State's right over secular education. Democracy, gives you and me an inalienable interest, social and political, in the education of each voter, because its very principle is the right to choose our rulers. As to religious education, that of course is sacred, where it does not encroach on the State's right, and the arrangement I favor is that secular studies be enforced during certain hours, and the use of the school buildings granted ...
— The Young Seigneur - Or, Nation-Making • Wilfrid Chateauclair

... brother said; And Lakshman bent his drooping head. In turns by grief and pride impelled, A middle course of thought he held, Then in a frown of anger, bent His brows that chief most excellent, And like a serpent in his hole, Breathed fierce and fast in wrath of soul. His threatening brows so darkly frowned, His eyes so fiercely glanced around, They made ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI


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