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course is a noun, verb and adverb meaning "education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings". It carries 13 recorded senses.
education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
“he took a course in basket weaving”
“flirting is not unknown in college classes”
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”
a line or route along which something travels or moves
“the hurricane demolished houses in its path”
“the track of an animal”
“the course of the river”
(construction) a layer of masonry
“a course of bricks”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for course come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.