Meaning & Definition of Course in English

1. Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

• "He took a course in basket weaving"

• "Flirting is not unknown in college classes"

2. 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"

3. General line of orientation

• "The river takes a southern course"

• "The northeastern trend of the coast"

4. 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"

5. 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"

6. A body of students who are taught together

• "Early morning classes are always sleepy"

7. Part of a meal served at one time

• "She prepared a three course meal"

8. (construction) a layer of masonry

• "A course of bricks"

9. 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"

1. Move swiftly through or over

• "Ships coursing the atlantic"

2. Move along, of liquids

• "Water flowed into the cave"

• "The missouri feeds into the mississippi"

3. Hunt with hounds

• "He often courses hares"

1. As might be expected

• "Naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill"