elective course

1. 1.

   a course that the student can select from among alternatives

   Synonymselective

   Broadercourse

Questions about elective course

What does elective course mean?

elective course means "a course that the student can select from among alternatives".

What is another word for elective course?

Close synonyms include elective. 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 elective course a common word?

elective course 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.