Course vs Class - What's the Difference?

Class

Course

Definitions

Definition as Noun
  • (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
  • elegance in dress or behavior
  • a collection of things sharing a common attribute
  • education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
  • a league ranked by quality
  • a body of students who are taught together
  • people having the same social, economic, or educational status
  • a body of students who graduate together
Definition as Noun
  • part of a meal served at one time
  • facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport
  • a body of students who are taught together
  • a mode of action
  • education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
  • a connected series of events or actions or developments
  • a line or route along which something travels or moves
  • (construction) a layer of masonry
  • general line of orientation
Definition as Verb
  • arrange or order by classes or categories
Definition as Verb
  • move swiftly through or over
  • hunt with hounds
  • move along, of liquids
Definition as Adverb
Definition as Adverb
  • as might be expected

Examples

  • "she has a lot of class"
  • "there are two classes of detergents"
  • "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"
  • "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
  • "early morning classes are always sleepy"
  • "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"
  • "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High"
  • "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
  • "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill"
  • "she prepared a three course meal"
  • "the course had only nine holes"; "the course was less than a mile"
  • "early morning classes are always sleepy"
  • "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"
  • "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"
  • "the government took a firm course"; "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available"
  • "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"
  • "a course of bricks"
  • "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast"
  • "ships coursing the Atlantic"
  • "He often courses hares"
  • "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

Parts of Speech

Noun, Verb
Adverb, Noun, Verb