course

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
The Healthy Youth Act would give parents a choice of enrolling their children in an abstinence until marriage course, which is what's currently being taught in schools, or a course which is still abstinence based, but also teaches contraception methods.

View all »
Definitions (98)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (23)

  1. noun Onward movement in a particular direction; progress: the course of events.
  2. noun Movement in time; duration: in the course of a year.
  3. noun The direction of continuing movement: took a northern course.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (59)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (3)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (13)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

 

Tags

course hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 167 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Suggestions Wordniks Suggest

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

plan ·  case ·  result ·  history ·  way

Used in the same contextWord Family

course:   courses ·  coursing ·  coursed
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (4)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English, from Old French cours, from Latin cursus, from past participle of currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (3)

  1. from Middle English cours, course, from Old French curs, cors, cours, masculine, course, feminine, French cours, masculine, course, feminine, = Provencal cors, masculine, corsa, feminine, = Spanish Portuguese curso, masculine, = Italian corso, masculine, and corsa, feminine, a course, race, way, etc., from Latin cursus, masculine, Middle Latin also cursa, feminine, a course, running, from currere, past participle cursus, run: see current.
  2. from course, n.
  3. Early modern English also coresen, from Middle English *coresen, from coreser, modern courser, a groom: see courser, and cf. corse, the same word as course, but in a more literal sense.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/koʊrs/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word many times a day.

Recently looked up

LOCUS · RICA · literate · fdic · PCB

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

ultimatum · pew · deadpool · sad panda · nom nom nom