course

Meanings

Noun

• A sequence of events.
• A path that something or someone moves along.
• The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
• Menses.
• A row or file of objects.
• One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to played together.

Verb

• To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
• To run through or over.
• To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
• To cause to chase after or pursue game.

Adverb

• Alternative of of course

Related

Narrower meaning words

• bird course
• crash course
• due course

Origin

• From Middle English cours, from Old French cours, from Latin cursus ("course of a race"), from currō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- ("to run"). cursus.