course

noun

  1. 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. 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. 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. 4

    (construction) a layer of masonry

    a course of bricks

  5. 5

    part of a meal served at one time

    she prepared a three course meal

  6. 6

    a body of students who are taught together

    early morning classes are always sleepy

  7. 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. 8

    general line of orientation

    the river takes a southern course

    the northeastern trend of the coast

  9. 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. 1

    hunt with hounds

    He often courses hares

  2. 2

    move along, of liquids

    Water flowed into the cave

    the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi

  3. 3

    move swiftly through or over

    ships coursing the Atlantic

Synonyms

Also useful for “course”:Unscrambler