course
noun
- 1
a mode of action
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
- 2
education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
he took a course in basket weaving
flirting is not unknown in college classes
- 3
facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport
the course had only nine holes
the course was less than a mile
- 4
(construction) a layer of masonry
a course of bricks
- 5
part of a meal served at one time
she prepared a three course meal
- 6
a body of students who are taught together
early morning classes are always sleepy
- 7
a connected series of events or actions or developments
the government took a firm course
historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available
- 8
general line of orientation
the river takes a southern course
the northeastern trend of the coast
- 9
a line or route along which something travels or moves
the hurricane demolished houses in its path
the track of an animal
verb
- 1
hunt with hounds
He often courses hares
- 2
move along, of liquids
Water flowed into the cave
the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
- 3
move swiftly through or over
ships coursing the Atlantic
Also useful for “course”:Unscrambler— Rearrange the letters in “course”