course

English Online Dictionary. What means course‎? What does course mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (horse–hoarse merger)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôs, IPA^(key): /kɔːs/
  • (General American) enPR: kôrs, IPA^(key): /kɔɹs/, /koɹs/

  • Homophone: coarse
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s

• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (rhotic) enPR: kōrs, IPA^(key): /koːɹs/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /koəs/

• (Tasmania) IPA^(key): /kɜːs/

  Homophone: curse (Tasmania)

  Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s (Tasmania)

• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /kuːɹs/, /kʊɹs/

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

course (plural courses)

1. A sequence of events.
   1. A normal or customary sequence.
   2. A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
   3. Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
   4. (education) A learning programme
      1. a series of lectures or lessons in a particular subject

         Synonym: class

      2. (UK, Ireland, Philippines) an educational programme at a college or university leading to an academic degree or vocational qualification.
   5. (especially in medicine) A treatment plan.
   6. (cooking) A stage of a meal.

   7. The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
2. A path that something or someone moves along.
   1. The itinerary of a race.

   2. A racecourse.
   3. The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
   4. (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
   5. (golf) A golf course.
   6. (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.

   7. (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.

   8. (India, historical) The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.
3. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.

4. (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
5. A row or file of objects.
   1. (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.

   2. (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
   3. (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
6. (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 be played together.

Hyponyms

• bird course
• crash course
• due course
• massive open online course (MOOC)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Gulf Arabic: كورس (kōrs)

Translations

Further reading

• course on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

course (third-person singular simple present courses, present participle coursing, simple past and past participle coursed)

1. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
2. (transitive) To run through or over.
3. (transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
4. (transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.

Derived terms

• coursing joint

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• 'course

Adverb

course (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Ellipsis of of course.

References

See also

• nom de course

Anagrams

• Couser, Crouse, Crusoe, cerous, coures, crouse, source

Chinese

Etymology

From English course.

Pronunciation

Noun

course

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) course; learning programme (Classifier: 個／个 c)

   報course／报course [Cantonese]  ―  bou³ ko¹ si² [Jyutping]  ―  to apply for a course

2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) course; programme for treatment

References

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

French

Etymology

From Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”), with influence of Italian corsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuʁs/

Noun

course f (plural courses)

1. run, running
2. race
3. errand

Usage notes

• course is a false friend, it does not mean "course". To translate the English word course to French, use cours.

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

• “course”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• coeurs, cœurs
• coures
• écrous
• source

Middle English

Noun

course

1. Alternative form of cours

Adjective

course

1. Alternative form of cours

Norman

Etymology

From Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”).

Noun

course f (plural courses)

1. (Jersey) course