Course definition

Course as a noun

1. education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

   "he took a course in basket weaving"

   Same sense: class, course of study, course of instruction

2. a connected series of events or actions or developments

   "the government took a firm course"

   Same sense: line

3. general line of orientation

   "the river takes a southern course"

   Same sense: trend

4. a mode of action

   "if you persist in that course you will surely fail"

   Same sense: course of action

5. a line or route along which something travels or moves

   "the course of the river"

   Same sense: track, path

6. a body of students who are taught together

   Same sense: class, form, grade

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"

   Same sense: row

9. facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport

   "the course had only nine holes"

Course as a verb

10. move swiftly through or over

11. move along, of liquids

    Same sense: run, flow, feed

12. hunt with hounds

    "He often courses hares"

Course as an adverb

13. as might be expected

    Same sense: of course, naturally

Synonyms and antonyms

• class definition
• course of study
• course of instruction
• line definition
• trend
• course of action
• track
• path
• form definition
• grade
• row
• run definition
• flow
• feed
• of course
• naturally

All synonyms of course, sense by sense

How to say course

Course has 1 syllable and rhymes with force. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with course

• force
• source
• horse
• divorce
• enforce
• workforce
• reinforce
• endorse
• morse
• remorse
• coarse
• concourse

All 21 words that rhyme with course

COURSE in word games

Scrabble

8

Words With Friends

10

Anagrams

3

Is COURSE a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check COURSE in the word checker, or unscramble COURSE to see its 3 anagrams and the shorter words in its letters.