courser

Other forms of courser

plural

coursers·

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.

Questions about courser

What does courser mean?

courser means "a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in courser?

courser has 2 syllables: cour-ser. The stress falls on "cour". In IPA it is /ˈkɔɹsɚ/.

What is another word for courser?

Close synonyms include charger. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is courser a common word?

courser is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.