What does Course Mean?

Definitions

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
  • move swiftly through or over
  • hunt with hounds
  • move along, of liquids
Definition as Adverb
  • as might be expected

Examples

  • "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"

Part of Speech

Adverb, Noun, Verb