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Meaning course meaning

What does course mean?
Definitions in simple English

course Noun

— In school, a course is a class in a specific subject. The science course was very difficult. — A course is the path that something follows in space or in time. During the course of the evening, things went from bad to worse. The economy grew quickly over the course of the next few years. In the course of testing the drug, they found new uses for it. One teacher can completely change the course of your life. We'll have to let the disease take its course. It is important that we decide now on the future course for the company. The wind kept blowing the boat off course. The course of the river has changed over time. — For a meal, a course is one part of a meal such as dessert. We usually do not eat a meal with nine courses. — Some games are played on a course. The game of golf is played on a golf course.

course Verb

— If something courses, it runs or flows through something. Blood courses through the veins and arteries in our bodies. The oil coursed through the engine.

course

— noun (= class) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings he took a course in basket weaving flirting is not unknown in college classes — noun (= line) 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 — noun (= trend) general line of orientation the river takes a southern course the northeastern trend of the coast — noun (= course of action) 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 — noun (= path, track) 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 — adverb (= naturally) as might be expected naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill — noun 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 — noun (construction) a layer of masonry a course of bricks — noun part of a meal served at one time she prepared a three course meal — verb hunt with hounds He often courses hares — verb move swiftly through or over ships coursing the Atlantic — verb (= flow, feed) move along, of liquids Water flowed into the cave the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi — noun (= class) a body of students who are taught together early morning classes are always sleepy

Synonyms course synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as course?

course English » English

path route way direction track road run passage method flow class procedure line curriculum process pathway channel trajectory dish current trend policy motion manner trail stream rough order means itinerary feed course of study circuit subject street series sequence row roadway orbit naturally momentum mean highway field chase vigour vigor tide thick

Topics course topics

What do people use course to talk about?
Language and thought Want

Decide, plan
Daily life Food Types of food

Prepared food
Universe, creation World Land

Valley
Language and thought Teach

Subject of teaching
Language and thought Teach

Class, lesson
Social behavior

Behavior
Physical actions Move

Move in a direction
States Time Relative time

Order, sequence
States Location

Direction
Grammar Case Primary cases Spatial location of an event

Path (of movement)
Daily life Food Eat

Feast
States Time Relative time Before

During
Person Healthy Treat disease

Medicine
Language and thought Want Request

Agree to do something
Language and thought Want Influence

Advise
Physical actions Move Move in a direction

Turn
Physical actions Move

Move toward something
Physical actions Move something

Turn something
States Time Relative time Order, sequence

Series
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Probably
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs

Yes
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Markers of emphasis

Conjugation course conjugation

How do you conjugate course?

course · verb

Examples course examples

How do I use course in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Yes, of course.
Saying that you would rather learn Spanish than Esperanto is like saying you would rather run a marathon than go for a Sunday walk; of course you end up doing neither.
You can do whatever you want to do, of course.
Of course, I understand.
Of course, you can leave.
Of course, I'm denying it.
What made you change course?
Of course yes!
Of course I love her.
Tom paid for German course, he was present at the introductory lesson and he hasn't showed himself there since.
Everybody has attended the training course, except for Tom.
Tom enrolled in a language course. He wants to learn German.
It would of course be cheaper for you to sleep at our place.
In no country other than England, it has been said, can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day.
Of course you can take it if you want.
Of course there should be local hospitals.
Of course it's difficult to gain access to the Prime Minister.
The magnets, of course, have a magnetic field around them.
Of course I will go.
Of course, I will be at the party.
Of course our lifestyle is different from America.
Of course, you may.
I am against the war, of course.
Of course, I'm young, and politics is conducted by grown-ups.
In Europe, people regard punctuality as a matter of course.
Of course, there were concerts in the town.

Movie subtitles

Of course, I don't think that it is possible to get rid of all of that.
There were, of course, some imposing sights on the banks of the Thames, notably a large gaol, the Tower of London.
In Venice, La Serenissima, here in Frankfurt, on the banks of the River Main. and, of course, in London itself. It wasn't just London pride.
Well of course we don't really have final say over where we get sent, but. I have been praying to be sent to my favorite place in the whole world.
Well of course that didn't work.
Of course you woke up! You drank twelve cups of coffee!
And, of course, the answer for Venus, sadly, is that some greenhouse effect, global warming, has overtaken Venus.
Of course, we could luck out and actually send our message towards an alien civilisation.
Of course, if everything is just right and there is another technological civilisation out there capable of receiving our message.
There will be those who, I think, understandably, will argue that we humans should remain hidden in the great galactic tall grasses, because, of course, maybe they're hungry, for example, and would like some hors d'oeuves.
Of course, the sins she committed during her life time are calculated seperately.
Of course, if he is in right mind, he should think so.
Of course you can't say there is none.
Of course it's too late.
I studied astronomy and mathematics and physics of course.
Of course. Well, she's more than my servant.
Of course I do.
Of course. They don't know what that is.
Of course.
Of course you can play cop, but you can't kill anyone.
You'll see the kids at least. - Of course.
Of course. They might not dare come out, but I'm here.
No weapons, and of course you can't. vote!
Of course it was.
Of course you'd take her side.
Of course not.
Of course I forgive you, Johnny.
Because I like them, of course.
Course they can! They do it all the time.
Here. I've decided. Let's go to the next course.
BUT ANY INFORMATION THAT YOU'D BE ABLE TO PROVIDE US WOULD CERTAINLY ACCELERATE THE PROCESS. YEAH, OF COURSE.
YES. OF COURSE. YES.
Of course you can.
Okay, well, of course, we're gonna need a final consent if there are any family members.
Of course you know what it's like.
No. Of course you don't.
Of course. Yeah.
Of course you do, you poor unmarried thing.
Of course, I forgive you, Joshy.

News and current affairs

One answer, of course, is a complete collapse of the US dollar.
Of course, such considerations might have little influence on prices.
Of course, there are obvious differences between 1989 and now.
Of course, we want to continue to find ways to make ourselves less vulnerable and terrorists more so.
Of course, the various components of debt differ considerably in their character and sources of financing - and thus in their sustainability.
Of course, the NPT has repeatedly been violated or circumvented by states that never subscribed to it.
Indeed, during the past 20 years, they actually cut aid for agriculture programs, and only now are reversing course.
The truth, of course, is that aid is more stable than tax revenues in poor countries.
It is, of course, in times of economic downturn that countries worry most about their credit rating, so the IMF stance is particularly unhelpful.
Of course, individual developing countries may be spared.
These are, of course, hypothetical questions.
And, of course, being General Secretary carries no constitutional term limit.
Of course there are basic requirements that all member states must accept.
We disagree with many of its contents, of course, but also oppose the idea of having an EU constitution at all.
Of course, the fall of the house of Lehman Brothers has nothing to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Europe, of course, has no significant centralized tax authority, so this key automatic stabilizer is essentially absent.
Of course, most of us don't need to be conditioned to feel repulsed by rape or torture.
Reducing unemployment is desirable, of course, but many terrorists do not come from poverty.
Of course, democratization does not automatically guarantee better behavior on the world stage.

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