Definition of course

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course - 14 definitions

- noun
1. course -- education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"
synonyms: course of study, course of instruction, class
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
2. course -- 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"
synonyms: line
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
3. course -- general line of orientation; "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast"
synonyms: trend
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
4. course -- 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"
synonyms: course of action
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
5. path -- 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"
synonyms: path, track
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
6. class -- a body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy"
synonyms: class, form, grade
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
7. course -- part of a meal served at one time; "she prepared a three course meal"
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
8. course -- (construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks"
synonyms: row
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9. course -- 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"
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
- verb
10. course -- move swiftly through or over; "ships coursing the Atlantic"
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
11. run -- move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
synonyms: run, flow, feed
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
12. course -- hunt with hounds; "He often courses hares"
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
13. course, coursed -- to cause hounds to chase game
synonyms: coursed, courses
Source:OWL 2 Web Ontology Language
 
- adverb
14. naturally -- as might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill"
synonyms: naturally, of course
antonyms: unnaturally -- in a manner at variance with what is natural or normal; "The early Church not unnaturally adopted the position that failure to see the messianic character of his work was really caused by the people's own blindness"
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
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unnaturally -- in a manner at variance with what is natural or normal; "The early Church not unnaturally adopted the position that failure to see the messianic character of his work was really caused by the people's own blindness"

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