course
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôs, IPA(key): /kɔːs/
- (General American) enPR: kôrs, IPA(key): /kɔːɹs/, /kɔɹs/
Audio (GA) (file) - (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: kōrs, IPA(key): /ko(ː)ɹs/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /koəs/
- (Tasmania) IPA(key): /kɜːs/
- Homophone: coarse; curse (Tasmania)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s, -ɜː(ɹ)s (Tasmania)
Etymology 1Edit
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.
NounEdit
course (plural courses)
- A sequence of events.
- The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.
- A normal or customary sequence.
- c. 1595–1596, 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 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
- The course of true love never did run smooth.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Day and night, / Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course.
- A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
- Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
- A learning programme, whether a single class or (UK) a major area of study.
- I need to take a French course.
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- 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 […]
- 1992 August 21, Edwina Currie, Diary:
- Her course will be ‘Communication Studies with Theatre Studies’: God, how tedious, how pointless.
- 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- 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.
- (especially in medicine) A treatment plan.
- 1932, Agatha Christie, The Thirteen Problems
- Miss Clark, alarmed at her increasing stoutness, was doing a course of what is popularly known as banting.
- 1932, Agatha Christie, The Thirteen Problems
- A stage of a meal.
- We offer seafood as the first course.
- The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Chronicles 8:14:
- He appointed […] the courses of the priests.
- A path that something or someone moves along.
- His illness ran its course.
- The itinerary of a race.
- The cross-country course passes the canal.
- A racecourse.
- The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
- (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
- (golf) A golf course.
- (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
- The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south.
- (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
- A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.
- (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
- Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.
- (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
- A row or file of objects.
- (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
- On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.
- (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
- (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
- (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
- (music) 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 played together.
HyponymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Gulf Arabic: كورس (kōrs)
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
sequence of events
programme, chosen manner of proceeding
ordered process or sequence or steps
learning program
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medicine: treatment plan
stage of a meal
succession of one to another in office or duty
path that something or someone moves along
itinerary of a race
racecourse — see racecourse
path taken by a flow of water — see watercourse
sports: trajectory of a ball etc.
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golf course — see golf course
nautical: direction of movement of a vessel
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intended passage of voyage
menses — see menses
row or file of objects
masonry: row of bricks
music: string on a lute
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music: pair of strings played together
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VerbEdit
course (third-person singular simple present courses, present participle coursing, simple past and past participle coursed)
- To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
- The oil coursed through the engine.
- Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
- 2013, Martina Hyde, "Is the pope Catholic?", The Guardian, 20 September 2013[1]
- He is a South American, so perhaps revolutionary spirit courses through Francis's veins. But what, pray, does the Catholic church want with doubt?
- (transitive) To run through or over.
- (transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene vi]:
- We coursed him at the heels.
- (transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.
- to course greyhounds after deer
TranslationsEdit
Flow
Pursue
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Etymology 2Edit
AdverbEdit
course (not comparable)
- (colloquial) Alternative form of of course
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
- "Course it's mighty hard to tell till we've put out a few traps," said the former, "but it looks to me like we've struck it lucky."
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”), with influence of Italian corsa.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
course f (plural courses)
Usage notesEdit
- course is a false friend, it does not mean "course". To translate the English word course to French, use cours.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Romanian: cursă
Further readingEdit
- “course”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
course
- Alternative form of cours
AdjectiveEdit
course
- Alternative form of cours
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”).
NounEdit
course f (plural courses)