Course

Definition: Course

Course

Adverb

1. As might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill".

Noun

1. Education imparted in a series of lessons or class 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. 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".

4. A mode of action; "if you persist in that course you will surely fail".

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. General line of orientation: "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast".

7. Part of a meal served at one time; "she prepared a three course meal".

8. A layer of masonry; "a course of bricks".

Verb

1. Move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave".

2. Hunt (game) with hounds; "He often courses hares".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "course" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Aerospace

Building

Building & Civil Engineering

Education

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Literature

Medicine

Mining

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Course

Conduct

Execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record.

Course

Noun: corridors of time, sweep of time, vesta of time, course of time, progress of time, process of time, succession of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time, stream of time, tract of time, current of time, tide of time, march of time, step of time, flight of time; duration.

Direction

Noun: direction, bearing, course, vector; set, drift, tenor; tendency; incidence; bending, trending; Verb: dip, tack, aim, collimation; steering steerage.

Eventuality

The world, life, things, doings, affairs in general; things in general, affairs in general; the times, state of affairs, order of the day; course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of events; ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life; chapter of accidents; (chance); situation; (circumstances).

Journey

Journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt.

Layer

Noun: layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; table, tablet; dess; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter.

Motion

Stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematics; telekinesis.

Navigation

Navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate.

Pursuit

Chase, give chase, course, dog, hunt, hound; tread on the heels, follow on the heels of; (sequence).

River

Stream, course, flux, flow, profluence; effluence. (egress); defluxion; flowing. Verb: current, tide, race, coulee.

Teaching

Exercise, task; curriculum; course, course of study; grammar, three R's, initiation, A.B.C.; (beginning).

Crosswords: Course

French (competition, contest, course, dash, errand, journey, message, race, run, running).

Of course i don't know that yet, and in a way i am dead already (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Oh, of course you have (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Those cries can change the course of a life (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

I am glad you are late. This chicken took longer than I expected Hope it isn't done too much Of course, it caught on fire once I think it is better that I cut it out here, unless you want half of one for yourself (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht)

You'll have to wear a beard for that one of course. (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

Just another course (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC)

I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it. ("The Wind Beneath My Wings"; performing artist: Bette Midler)

Can't stop this course we've plotted (Can't Stop This Thing We Started; performing artist: Bryan Adams)

How does love get so off course ("This Kiss"; performing artist: Faith Hill)

I planned each charted course; ("My Way"; performing artist: Frank Sinatra)

Let nature take its course, and hope it passes. (references; author: unknown)

Of course I don't look busy. I did it right the first time. (references; author: unknown)

It used to be only death and taxes were inevitable. Now, of course, there's shipping and handling, too. (references; author: unknown)

Sleeping on the job: This is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to. (references; author: unknown)

La Course du lièvre à travers les champs (1972)

Of Course Ducks (1966)

Bombay Race Course (1965)

The Confidence Course (1965)

A Questionable Course (1964)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Diane Irons' 14-Day Beauty Boot Camp: The Crash Course To Looking and Feeling Great w/ one Audio CD (reference)

• Crash Course for the Act: The Last-Minute Guide to Scoring High (Princeton Review Series) (reference)

• A Course in Miracles (reference)

• A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" (reference)

• Bridge to Reality: A Heart Centered Approach to a Course in Miracles and the Process of Inner Healing (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• American Society Of Anesthesiologists Annual Refresher Course Lectures (reference)

• Basic Communication Course Annual (reference)

• Commercial Law & Practice Course Handbook Series (reference)

• Corporate Law & Practice Course Handbooks Series (reference)

• Course Trends (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Critters 2: The Main Course (reference)

• Jancis Robinson's Wine Course Boxed Set (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Charles Koechlin: La Course de Printemps Op95 (reference)

• Crash Course in Roses (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Mary-Kate & Ashley Crush Course (reference)

• C++ Interactive Training Course (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Farberware First Course 12-Inch Deep Skillet with Lid (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Around 1944, H. Meyer set up mice for radiation exposure investigations by A. Nettleship and P. Henshaw. The carcinogenesis of urethane was discovered in the course of these experiements. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A variety of shots of older men and women outdoors exercising at different Par Course stations. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Students observing a drainage project and its influence on mosquito populations during a mosquito control training course. Credit: CDC.

This photograph was taken in Savannah, Georgia during a training course. Credit: CDC.

Glendon E. Boothe Attending field photogrammetry course. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Fording river during the course of the day's leveling Level party of Ira Rubottom. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Golf course on the Kona coast. Palm trees moulded by direction of prevailing trade winds. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Bayou Lafourche was the main channel of the Mississippi River a few thousand years ago. As river bed fills, the river changes course seeking a steeper slope to the sea. If allowed to follow its natural cycle, the Mississippi River would be in the process of changing its course into the bed of the Atchafalaya River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

One of the secondary channels at Sachuest Marsh during a summer high course tide. Several months after the restoration, the marsh fully recovered. The newly dug channels in the restored marsh provide passage for small fish and allow better exchange of saline waters in the hinterland regions of the marsh. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Golf courses are common along the South Carolina coast. This golf course at the edge of the Waccamaw River was part of a study conducted by the North Inlet - Winyah Bay NERR designed to determine the effects of golf course best management practices on water quality. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All forests that have been made such in our time shall forthwith be disafforsted; and a similar course shall be followed with regard to river banks that have been placed "in defense" by us in our time. (reference)

And therefore we see, that in assemblies, impowered to act by positive laws, where no number is set by that positive law which impowers them, the act of the majority passes for the act of the whole, and of course determines, as having, by the law of nature and reason, the power of the whole. (Second Treatise of Government)

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. (reference)

These measures will of course be different in different countries. (reference)

No dues of any kind other than those provided for in the present Part shall be levied along the course or at the mouth of these rivers. (reference)

Do not let us take the course of allowing events to drift along until it is too late. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. (reference)

The privilege against self-incrimination, which has had a long and expansive historical development, is the essential mainstay of our adversary system, and guarantees to the individual the "right to remain silent unless he chooses to speak in the unfettered exercise of his own will," during a period of custodial interrogation as well as in the courts or during the course of other official investigations. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

One says those sort of things, of course, without any idea of a serious meaning

This of course would be very unfair on A, though a correct solution under the given conditions

Of course he did.

Little Pearl, of course, was her companion

Then, deciding upon his course, he arose

A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon

But God was not in it of course when they stole it.

Sometimes I think I ought to take a course to be a fingerprint expert

I determined therefore to direct my course this way, in order to my return to Europe

In this course which our ancestors took there was a show of prudence at least, as if their principle were to satisfy the more pressing wants first

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Treatment involves a two-dose course. (references)

Unfortunately, it must run its course. (references)

The clinical course is highly variable. (references)

Business

Pricing has of course become a critical competitive factor. (references)

The golf course is now in home territory, distance is no longer an issue. (references)

Thus in the early 1990s they embarked on a course of energy conservation. (references)

Children

India

By the end of 2000, 16,000 children had completed the transitional education course, and 5,000 were enrolled during the year. (references)

Iraq

Families reportedly were threatened with the loss of their food ration cards if they refused to enroll their children in the course. (references)

Iraq

Senior military officers who supervised the course noted that the children held up under the "physical and psychological strain" of training that lasted for as long as 14 hours each day. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kazakhstan

Course topics and content generally are subject to approval by university administrations. (references)

Iran

All textbooks used in course work must be approved for use by the Ministry of Education, including religious texts. (references)

Chad

Over the course of 10 days in January, UNHCR repatriated the final 2,000 Chadian refugees resident in refugee camps in the CAR. (references)

Economic History

Thailand

Success, of course, can only be measured by the economy's performance. (references)

Hong Kong

At about age 12, children progress to a 3-year course of junior secondary education. (references)

Egypt

In selling to the Egyptian government, one will of course deal directly with the client agency. (references)

Human Rights

Mongolia

A human rights course is a requirement in the university law curriculum. (references)

Guatemala

New recruits had to complete a 6-month training course before entering on duty. (references)

Taiwan

In March the JY initiated a human rights course in its judicial training program. (references)

Minorities

China

Graduates of these schools typically need 1 year or more of intensive Chinese before they can cope with course work at a Chinese-language university. (references)

Czech Republic

In August the first group of police trainees completed the national police academy's course in Romani language and culture, designed to improve police officers' communications with and response to the Romani communities in their precincts. (references)

Namibia

The Constitution prohibits discrimination based on race and other factors and specifically prohibits "the practice and ideology of apartheid." The law codifies certain protections for those who cite racial discrimination in the course of research (including academic and press reporting) or in trying to reduce racial disharmony. (references)

Political Economy

Poland

UW pursues a mainly socially liberal, pro-free market course. (references)

EGYPT

Since 1991, Egypt has followed a course of macroeconomic stabilization and discipline. (references)

NIGERIA

The new wage review has, however, set many state governments and their employees on a collision course. (references)

Political Rights

Saudi Arabia

The Council engages in debates that, while closed to the general public, provide advice and views occasionally contrary to the Government's proposed policy or recommended course of action. (references)

Morocco

The Election Commission examined numerous petitions during the course of the electoral season in 1997 and recommended the reversal of over 60 municipal election results, including in Tangier, Khoribga, and Oujda, noted irregularities in four parliamentary races in Casablanca, Chefchaouen, and Fez, and called for the results to be set aside, which they were. (references)

Trade

Norway

It is expected that more control will be enforced on products from third-country suppliers (this, of course, includes the United States), primarily concentrating on toys, pharmaceuticals and some foodstuffs. (references)

Travel

Chad

There is a 9-hole golf course with sand fairways and greens. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

The Golf Hotel is in a calm area, a few kilometers out of town, and near Abidjan's championship golf course. (references)

Czech Rep

Czechs prefer to get to know you -- to learn about your background and your company, and then, if they are comfortable with you, get down to deal-making around the dessert course, or even at a follow-up meeting. (references)

Women

Namibia

In 2000 the police began a special training course on gender sensitivity. (references)

Vanuatu

During 2000 in the course of a downsizing in the public service, a disproportionate number of women's positions were abolished. (references)

Costa Rica

The authorities have incorporated training on handling domestic violence cases into the basic training course for new police personnel. (references)

Worker Rights

United Kingdom

Children under age 16 are not permitted to work in an industrial enterprise except as part of an educational course. (references)

Lesotho

The law provides for a compensation system for industrial injuries and diseases arising out of and in the course of employment. (references)

Korea

Under this provision, persons who assist trade unions or employers in a dispute or in the course of bargaining are required to register with the Ministry of Labor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Course

Expressions using "course": A Course in Miracles ♦ a matter of course ♦ accelerated course ♦ ad in the course of business ♦ alter course ♦ alter the course of ♦ alteration of course ♦ ancillary course ♦ arched corbel course ♦ as a matter of course ♦ assault course ♦ audit to a lecture course ♦ back course sector ♦ base course ♦ basic course ♦ be driven off course ♦ be on collision course ♦ blanket course ♦ Blocking course ♦ by an indirect course ♦ certificate of completion of egb course at age 14 ♦ change course ♦ change of course ♦ change one's course ♦ collision course ♦ correspondence course ♦ course alignment ♦ course attendance certificate ♦ course Author Language ♦ course catalog ♦ course catalogue ♦ course credit ♦ course guidance service ♦ course indicator ♦ course line ♦ course member ♦ course of action ♦ course of disease ♦ course of events ♦ course of instruction ♦ course of lectures ♦ course of slimming treatment ♦ course of studies ♦ course of study ♦ course of treatment ♦ course recommended ♦ course scalloping ♦ course sharpness ♦ crash course ♦ cross course ♦ damp course ♦ degree course ♦ downhill course ♦ extension course ♦ extra course ♦ first course ♦ fish course ♦ Footing course ♦ Fore course ♦ foundation course ♦ front course sector ♦ go off course ♦ golf course ♦ graduate course ♦ Heading course ♦ hold a course ♦ hold one's course ♦ hold unswervingly to one's course ♦ holiday course ♦ In course ♦ in course of destruction ♦ in course of time ♦ in due course ♦ in full course ♦ in mid course ♦ in the course of ♦ in the course of smth. ♦ in the course of the centuries ♦ in the course of the year ♦ in the course of this ♦ in the course of time ♦ in the natural course of events ♦ in the normal course of events ♦ indicated course curvature ♦ indicated course line ♦ indicated course sector ♦ indicated slant course directional error ♦ indicated slant course line ♦ induction course ♦ intensive course ♦ introductory course ♦ it is in the course of construction ♦ it is the safest course ♦ it must run its course ♦ keep to one's course ♦ language course ♦ lap course ♦ lead collision course ♦ lecture course ♦ Legal Practice Course ♦ let things take their course. Additional references.

Beginning with "course": course-and-bearing-indicator, course-based, course-book, course-by-course, course-costing, course-detail, course-fishing, course-grain, course-grained, course-growing, course-integrated, course-is, course-knit, course-led, course-line, course-linked, course-module, course-name, course-number, course-organiser, course-owning, course-record, course-record-equalling, course-related, course-setting, course-to-population, course-units, course-wide, course-work.

Ending with "course": cross-course, end-of-course, five-course, four-course, golf-course, mid-course, multi-course, off-course, on-course, pre-course, race-course, three-course, time-course, two-course, water-course.

Containing "course": half-course sector.

Afrikaans

kursus (class), baan (orbit, path, playground, race-course, road, route, running, running track, track, trajectory, way, width). (various references)

Albanian

rrugë (approach, approaches, Avenue, cycle, drag, drive, gateway, haul, journey, milage, mileage, path, pathway, ride, road, roadway, route, Street, trail, traverse, way), kurs (exchange, quotation, rate, routing, school, tack), lëndë (copy, material, matter, stuff, subject, substance, theme), lëshoj zagarët, motiv (motif, motive, pattern, persuasive, reason, spring, theme), orientim (aspect, denotation, direction, orientation, steer), pjatë (cymbal, dish, paten, plate), drejtim (accost, administration, conduct, direction, directorship, disposal, drift, guide, headship, helm, lead, leadership, lie, line, management, manual, operation, orientation, quarter, rectification, regimen, resort, run, set, steerage, supervision, tenor, trend, vector, way), rrjedhë (current, drift, effluence, flow, March, onflow, run, tenor, tide, watercourse), vend (clime, country, diggings, ground, job, land, location, locus, nation, native land, neck, part, place, point, position, post, receptacle, region, room, seat, space, spot, station, stead, terrain, territory), seri (nexus, series, succession), shesh (circus, court, esplanade, field, ground, place, platform, Square, table), shteg (aisle, alley, approach, footpath, footway, gangway, gap, Lane, loophole, pass, path, pathway, ride, trace, track, trackway, trail, way), shtresë (bed, coat, coating, covering, estate, flake, floor, horizon, layer, nappe, reach, region, seam, sheet, strata, stratum, streak, tract, wash), varg (cavalcade, chain, column, concatenation, file, in file, line, network, nexus, number, range, rank, ridge, row, series, string, succession, train, variety, verse), vazhdim (carrying-on, continuance, continuation, elongation, extension, follow up, persistence, persistency, resumption, sequel), rrjedh (accrue, arise, come, come from, derive, descend, dote, escape, flow, flow down, flow from, flux, leak, ooze, outflow, proceed, pump, result, run, spring, trickle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سلسلة منظمة, ‏شوط (cycle, race, round, stroke), ‏أرض ممهدة, ‏إتجاه (bearing, direction, drift, movement, orientation, persuasion, quarter, range, sense, temper, tendency, tenor, trend), ‏اللون (color, colour), ‏المقرر التعليمي, ‏خطة (counsel, forecast, idea, line of action, outline, plan, policy, project, schedule, schema, tactic), ‏صف (alignment, bank, classroom, cue, delineate, grade, lane, line, lineup, queue, range, rank, row, schoolroom, tier), ‏طبقة (category, classification, coat, deposit, layer, order, place, rank, strata, stratum, streak, tone), ‏طريق (approach, carriage way, lane, line, pass, passage, path, pathway, ride, right path, road, route, row, run, runway, rut, track, trail, way), ‏طارد (bouncer, chase, dog, evictor, expeller, fly, give chase, go after, hound, hunt, prosecute, pursue, repellent, run, run down, want), ‏شراع (canvas, cloth, film, knockabout, rag, sail, sheet), ‏سبيل (avenue, path, pathway, track, way), ‏مسار (channel, path, route, run, track, trajectory), ‏سلوك (action, antics, attitude, bearing, behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, goings on, habit, manner, performance, walk), ‏سير (file, foot, going, impel, march, motion, pan, pass, procession, progress, propel, running, thong, walk), ‏غضون, ‏حلقة دراسية (seminar), ‏حمله على المطاردة, ‏حيض (flow, indisposition, monthly), ‏وجهة, ‏مدماك, ‏مجموعة جرعات, ‏مضمار (racetrack, turf), ‏عدا (besides, chase, forswear, heel, lope, pace, patter, run, scurry, scuttle, sprint, spurt). (various references)

Basque

noski (of course). (various references)

Breton

evel-just (of course). (various references)

Bulgarian 

курс (footsteps, lode, market, path, quotation, race, rate of exchange, route, run, tack, way), движение (go, impulsion, locomotion, motion, move, movement, propulsion, race, stir, way, working), игрище за голф (green, links), писта (gangway, landing strip, make way, path, runway, track), посока (direction, heading, line, run, sense, set, strike, track, way), постепенност (gradualness), препускам (fly, hump, race, rip, scurry, spur, tantivy), пускам (admit, bleed, cast off, discharge, dismiss, drive, drop, float, fly, give off, grow, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, mail, play, push out, put forth, put on, put out, release, rip out, run, send forth, slip, start, start up, throw in, turn out, uncork, unhand, unleash), блюдо (plat, plate), бягам (cut, flee, lick, pelt, run, run away, scurry, shirk), линия на поведение (path, policy, proceeding), лекуване (healing, medication, treatment), въглищен пласт (coal-bed), долно платно, корито (scour, tray), ястие (dish, mess, plat), тичам (chase, go after, leg it, lick, race, run, run about, scamper about, scurry, skitter, tear, tear along), тека (devolve, effuse, flow, flux, lapse, leak, roll, roll by, run, run on, set, sluice), течение (current, draught, drift, flow, flowage, flux, fluxion, lapse, onflow, passage, stream, sweep, tide), циркулирам (circulate, run), хиподрум (hippodrome, racecourse, racetrack, the turf), ход (action, bat, current, foot, gait, going, lapse, motion, move, movement, operation, pace, passage, passing, play, ploy, process, race, rate, run, running, stream, swing, tenor, tide, track, train, tread, twist, walk, way), ходя на лов с кучета, развитие (development, evolution, germination, growth, making, movement, process, progress, run, upgrowth), ред (arrangement, cast, discipline, inning, kilter, method, order, orderliness, placement, rank, row, run, sequence, series, set, shape, taxis, tier, train, turn, variety), рудна жила (ledge, lode, reef, rib), серия (block, chapter, circuit, concatenation, consecution, cycle, parcel, range, round, run, sequence, series, set, suite), учебен курс, галерия (gallery, gangway, loft, passage, passageway, road, tunnel). (various references)

Catalan

naturalment (of course). (various references)

Chinese 

課程 (class), 進程 (process), 路线 (Courses, route), 路線 (route), 路程 , 軌 (inner reins of a 4-horse team, path, rail, track), 經過 (process, to go through, to pass), 學科 (branch of learning, subject). (various references)

Croatian

naravno (of course). (various references)

Czech

chod (action, dish, gait, going, motion, passing, run), závodní dráha (racecourse, racetrack), smìr (direction, movement, tack, tendency, trend, way), postup (advance, approach, consecution, course of action, practice, procedure, process, progress, progression, run, working), možnost (choice, contingency, eventuality, eventually, facility, opportunity, possibility, potentiality, scope), kurs (quotation, tack, track), dráha (career, path, race, railway, route, track, trajectory), bìh (race, run, running, rush, tenor). (various references)

Danish

kursus (class), fad (dish, plate, platter). (various references)

Dutch

koers (class, direction, exchange rate, rate of exchange), cursus (class), traject (class), tracé (class, route), route (class, road, route, way), leergang (class). (various references)

Esperanto

triviala (commonplace, vulgar), plado (dish, plate, platter), kurso (class), kurejo (race-course, running track, track). (various references)

Estonian

muidugi (of course). (various references)

Faeroese

skeið (class, era, spoon), fat (dish, plate, platter). (various references)

Farsi 

مسیر (Career, Orbit, Path, Point, Race, Run, Strand, Street, Trade, Trajectory, Traverse, Vector), چهارنعل رفتن (Gallop, Trig), جهت (Aim, Point, Sake, Set, Vector), جریان (Circuit, Flow, Fluor, Gush, Income, Inset, Ooze, Outflow, Progress, Rede, Stream, Tide), اموزه , اموزگان , روش (Demarche, Form, Growth, How, Manner, March, Method, Procedure, Rate, Rut, Style, System, Vein), درضمن (Meantime, Meanwhile), بسرعت حرکت دادن (Scurry), بخشی ازغذا. (various references)

Finnish

kurssi (class, exchange, exchange rate, rate), reitti (channel, itinerary, route). (various references)

Flemish

natuurlijk (of course). (various references)

French

cours (course of disease), trivial (commonplace), route, plat, piste, parcours, orientation (degree course), met, assise. (various references)

Frisian

skaal (dish, plate, platter), leargong (class). (various references)

German

Kurs (class, direction, exchange rate, going rate, line, market price, orientation, price, rate, rate of exchange, set, track), Lehrgang (seminar), kursus (class), Bahn (alley, Gore, Lane, length, path, pathway, railroad, railway, road, route, streetcar, track, train, tram, way, web), verlauf (end, issue, passage, process, progress, progression, regime, tenor, trend), Lauf (barrel, current, dash, drift, March, muzzle, operation, race, run, running, sprint, tenor). (various references)

Greek 

πορεία (heading, procedure, proceeding, process, procession, route, tenor), σειρά μαθημάτων (curriculum), διαδρομή (journey, path, route). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחזור (circuit, cycle, turn), מהלך (current, distance, gear, journey, move, run, stroke, tenor, walk), מרוץ (race, run, running), מסלול (path, road, run, track, walk, way), מסלה (gangway, orbit, road, sow, track, way), תור (epoch, era, line, queue, turn), קורס, זרם (current, downpour, flow, flux, influx, spurt, stream, tide, trend), כוון (aim, direction, intention, intonation, lead, orientation, tack, tendency, tenor, way), דרך (fashion, journey, manner, mode, path, road, route, through, way), סדרה (bay, order, rally in sport, sequence, series, set, string, suit), נדבך (tier). (various references)

Hungarian

kurzus, útirány (route, track), folyás (drift, flow, flux, leak, run, running), folyamat (course of proceedings, passage, procedure, process, procession, progress, progression, run), irány (beam, bearing, direction, heading, Lane, line, orientation, running, tenor, trend, way), kezelés (attendance, conditioning, cure, curing, fingering, handling, maintenance, management, manipulation, running, to premise, treatment, usage), menet (comb, cruise, drift, march, movement, procession, rally, round, travel), tanfolyam (class), kúra (cure), lefolyás (proceeding, procession, runoff), versenypálya (path, racecourse, race-track, speedway, track), étrend (commons, dietary, menu, regimen), menetirány, pálya (bed, field, ice run, lane, line, metals, orbit, path, run, track), téglasor, előadássorozat, útvonal (circuit, itinerary, line, path, route, track). (various references)

Icelandic

skeiðvöllur (race-course, running track, track), réttur (direct, right, straight), kappreiðabraut (race-course, running track, track). (various references)

Indonesian

mata pelajaran, jurusan (direction), jalan (go, manner, path, road, street, way), arah jalan, arah (direction, purpose, tenor). (various references)

Italian

rotta (broken, Lane, rout, route, sea lane), piatto (cymbal, dish, dishful, even, flat, plain, plane, plate, plateful, platter, turntable), percorso (distance, journey, route, run, trek, walk, way), decorso (expiration, expiry, flowing off), corso (class, currency, drift, flow, path, process, progress, race, rate, stream, tide, trend). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

経路 (channel, route), 一品 (an item, article, dish), クーポン券 (air conditioner, cool, cool down, cool jazz, cool-box, cooler, cooler-box, coolie, cooling down, cooling tower, cooling-off, coulomb, coupon, courier service), ゲリラ兵 (calking, caulking, caution, coach, coach's box, coaster, coat, coating, coda, coding, coding system, cogeneration, cogeneration system, Coke, Coke highball, coordinate, coordination, coordinator, corduroy, corkscrew, corselet, cortisone, course of study, course record, courseware, gel, gene, Gentzen, germane, germanium, guerrilla, lane marks, money, money pinch, ski slope, tennis court), 勢い (authority, energy, force, impetus, influence, life, might, necessarily, power, spirit, tendency, vigor), 仕形 (means, method, resource, way), 仕方 (means, method, resource, way), 方向 (direction, way), 沿道 (roadside, route), 分科 (branch, department, school, section), 科目 (curriculum, subject), 課目 (curriculum, subject), 航路 (route, run), 航路　 (run, sea route), 講座 (chair, lectureship), 走路 (express trail, race track), 重ね (heap, layer, pile, set, suits), 針路 (compass bearing, direction), 針路　 (compass bearing, direction), 進路 (route), 課程 (curriculum), 沿道　 (roadside, route). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かてい (assumption, curriculum, family, home, household, hypothesis, process, river bed, supposition), けいろ (channel, disposition, hair color, path, process, route), クール (cool), コース , こうざ (account, chair, crouching, lectureship, platform, pulpit, stage, upper seat), こうろ (blast furnace, censer, highway, incense burner, Kouro, one's course or path or road, public road, route, run), えんどう (chimney, flue, green peas, long walk, roadside, roundabout way, route), いきおい (authority, energy, force, impetus, influence, life, might, necessarily, power, spirit, tendency, vigor), そうろ (express trail, race track), かもく (curriculum, shy, silent, subject, Tuesdays and Thursdays), かさね (heap, layer, pile, set, suits), ほうこう (apprenticeship, aroma, balm, direction, emission of light, expulsion from school, fluctuation, fragrance, howl, muzzle, perfume, public duty, rambling, roaming, roar, seamstress, service, tailor, variation, wandering, way, yell), ぶんか (branch, civilization, culture, department, literary course, school, section, specialization, subdivision, the arts), しんろ (compass bearing, direction, route), しかた (means, method, resource, way), いっぴん (an item, article, article of rare beauty, dish, gem). (various references)

Korean 

과정 (Courses, process). (various references)

Luxembourgish

natiirlech (of course). (various references)

Manx

snaue (bathing, crawl, crawling, creep, creep as child, creeping, float, floating, flotation, glide, gliding, in suspension, scuttle; track of snail; swimming, scuttle; track; swimming, sidle, slither, slithering, swim), pairk (moorland, park, pasture field, public garden, untilled field), jastan (layer, row), coorse (career, circuit, curriculum, racetrack, reef, route, routine, row, travel, way), coorsal (cruise). (various references)

Norwegian

tallerken (dish, plate, platter), fat (dish, keg, plate, platter). (various references)

Papiamen

plato (dish, plate, platter). (various references)

Pig Latin

oursecay.(various references)

Polish

kurs (class). (various references)

Portuguese

curso (air-gap, career, channel, class, clearance, currency, current, drift, foot race, lecture, line, onflow, path, process, progress, race, school, stroke, tenor, tide, track, travel, turn, undercurrent), percurso (class, drive, ride, way), prato (dish, flange, plate, platter, pottery). (various references)

Romanian

curã (cure, treatment), cursã (ambush, chase, decoy, drive, errand, gin, journey, pit, pitfall, race, races, ride, riding, run, running, snare, springe, stroke, take in, the dogs, toil, trap), curs (act, channel, current, duration, flow, lapse, lecture, progress, quotation, rate, session, swim, tack, train, trend), curent (current, daily, draught, flow, fluent, fluently, flux, generally, instant, legal, popular, prevailing, prevalent, race, readily, routine, ruling, running, stream, swift, tide, trend, usual, usually), conduitã (behavior, behaviour, conduct, dealing, demeaneour, goings on, habit, leadership), comportare (action, bearing, behavior, behaviour, conduct, dealing, demeaneour, deportment, doings, habit, mien, trim), circula (be about, be abroad, circulate, flow, get about, go, pass, run), ciclu (circle, cycle, period, round, series), chip (air, appearance, aspect, countenance, effigy, face, form, icon, image, likeness, look, manner, patina, shape, similitude, Snoot, sort, spit, way, wise), cale (Avenue, channel, distance, drive, means, path, road, route, step, stitch, Street, track, way), curge (drip, elapse, flow, fly, glide, hang, not to hold water, pour, rain, run, start, stream, suppurate), fel de acţiona, alerga (career, chase, collide, elapse, flow, fly, go, go the pace, haste, hasten, hurry, race, run, rush, scamper, scour, spank, urge, walk), şir (catena, catenation, column, file, line, pack, queue, range, rank, rope, row, series, string, succession, train), alergãturã (come and go, running, scurry), decurs (duration), desfãşurare (development, display, evolution, fireworks, March, operation, passage, process, progress, spread, unfolding), direcţie (bearing, board, departure, direction, directorate, drift, lay, leadership, manager's office, mastership, path, run, set, setting, track, trend, way), direcţiune (direction, leadership, trend), drum (drive, highway, journey, passage, path, road, route, Street, thoroughfare, trace, track, trajectory, trip, voyage, walk, way), mers (current, drive, driven, gait, go, going, lapse, motion, movement, pace, run, scrambling, set, stroke, walk, walking), trece prin (draw, experience, foot, get through, go through, pass through, perambulate, permeate, run, squeeze through, strain), traversa (cross, go over, go through, pass across, perambulate, run, shoot, step across, traverse), timp (age, beat, cycle, date, day, distance, epoch, era, hour, length, period, season, tense, term, time, weather, while), teren (domain, earth, field, ground, land, site, soil, terrain, tract), serie (batch, concatenation, cycle, number, order, run, series, set, string, succession, swath), scurgere (discharge, drain, drainage, effluence, effluent, efflux, escape, flow, issue, lapse, leakage, leaking, loss, March, overflow, passage, passing, running, trickling), proces (act, action, case, law, law case, law suit, operation, process, suit, suit at law, trial), pistã de alergãri, duratã (continuance, duration, endurance, lasting, length, life, long, stretch, term), mod (approach, fashion, manner, mode, mood, style, way), fel (character, class, custom, description, feather, kidney, kind, manner, mode, nature, order, race, sort, species, stem, style, tap, tradition, tribe, way), manierã (approach, fashion, form, manner, mannerism, mode, penmanship, sort, stop, style, way), linie de conduitã (line), hipodrom (hippodrome, racecourse, turf), goni (banish, career, chase, dash, discard, dismiss, dispel, drive, flap away, Hunt, pack off, send, send away, shoo, start, sweep), fugi (career, chase, collide, dash, disappear, elope, escape, flee, fly, fly off, give way, make off, make one's escape, pack off, run, scamper, scatter, scuttle away, take oneself to flight), fugã (be quick, bolt, bunk, career, escape, flight, fugue, getaway, hurry on, leak, leg-bail, lick, look sharp, make haste, run, running, rush, scamper, scurry, scuttle, slip, stampede), fel de mâncare (dish, mess, plate), urma un curs, pistã (track). (various references)

Russian 

блюдо (dish, dishes, mess, plate, platter). (various references)

Scottish

cùrsa, réim (dominion). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tok (consecution, flow, flux, lapse, march, process, series, stream, tide), tečaj, teći (flow, flux, run, stream), smer (direction, route, trend), proticati (circulate), proganjati (hunt for, persecute), pravac (direction, heading, movement, route, way), kurs (rate), jelo (dish, eating, plat, victual, victuals). (various references)

Slovene

teèaj (rate). (various references)

Spanish

curso (class, exchange rate, grade, institute, path, progress, rate of exchange, tack, tenor, trend, year), cursillo (class, institute, minicourse), transcurso (passing, run), rumbo (direction, drift, rhumb, route, tack, tenor), plato (disc, dish, disk, food, menu, pigeon, plate, plateful, platter). (various references)

Swahili

sahani (dish, plate, platter). (various references)

Swedish

kurs (class, curriculum, heading, line, rate, rate of exchange, school, tack, track, trajectory), skikt (coat, lap, layer, seam, strata, stratum), riktning (bearing, direction, drive, line, set, tack, tendency, tenor, trend), lopp (bore, cylinder, heat, passage, race, run, running), lager (bay, bearing, bearings, coating, garner, inventory, lager, lap, laurel, layer, ply, seam, sheet, stock, strata, tier), farled (channel, fairway, Lane, sea lane, waterway), förlopp (evolution, lapse, pattern, the passage of events), bana (career, ground, line, orbit, path, profession, rink, road, track, trajectory, way). (various references)

Tagalog

pinggán (dish, plate, platter). (various references)

Turkish

kur (addresses, attention, class, court, courtship, flirt, flirtation, par, pass, rate, rate of exchance, rush, suit, wooing), akmak (bleed, discharge, drain, drain away, drain off, fall into, flow, issue, leak, pour, pour itself, pour out, run, run down, run out, sluice, splutter, stream, well forth, well out, well up), av sürmek, dökülmek (be poured, come off, disembogue, disgorge, drape, empty, fall, fall into, fall into decay, fall off, fall out, feel cheap, flow, go to pieces, molder, moulder, Peel, peel off, pour, pour forth, pour out, rub off, run down, slop over, spill, teem, trail), dizi (battery, chain, cluster, cycle, order, progression, queue, range, rank, rope, round, row, sequence, serial, series, set, string, tier, train), gidişat (complexion, drift, going, goings on, set, state of affairs, trend, way), köpeklerle kovalamak, akış (afflux, efflux, flight, flow, flux, gliding, inflow, influx, passage, pour, river, run, tenor, tide), koşturmak (gallop, run, run up, rush), yön (aspect, bearings, channel, complexion, direction, directional, facet, sense, trend, way), pist (airfield, cinder path, floor, landing field, path, ring, runway, scat, shoo, strip, tarmac, track), rota (heading, holding pattern, Lane, rota, route, sea lane, sea route, track), sıralama (alignment, arrangement, collocation, get up, placement, processing, putting in order), süreç (continuum, duration, process), sürgün avına çıkmak, seyir (cruising, journey, run), tabak (dish, plate, serving), koşmak (career, clip, harness, jog, leg, leg it, run, rush, scamper, scamper about, scour, scurry, shin, team, yoke). (various references)

Turkmen 

kurs (r), dowan (length). (various references)

Ukrainian

хід (burrow, cavalcade, chain, motion, move, passage, process, progress, run, running, tide, way), течія (current, flow, flux, onflow, stream), текти (ensue, flow, stream, weep), швидко бігти, курс (heading, path, rate, route, vector), напрям (bearings, direction, lay, line, range, road, school, sect, set, tack, tenor, tide, trend), мчати (bucket, career, dash, fly, hurtle, post, race, sail, scud, shoot ahead, shove along, tear along, waft, whiz, whizz, whoosh), лінія поведінки (policy), прокладати курс, полювати з гончаками, плин (flight), дистанція (distance, race). (various references)

Vietnamese 

con tuấn mã, chiều hướng (run, trend), cách giải quyết, vòng chạy đua, tiến trình, tất nhiên làm theo ý mình, quá trình diễn biến sân chạy đua, lớp hàng gạch, khoá, dòng (lineage, stream), đúng trình tự một vấn đề dĩ nhiên dĩ nhiên, đương nhiên (matter of course, natural), đường lối (line, path), đường đi cách cư sử, đợt (spell). (various references)

Welsh

cwrs, cerrynt (current, road), ystod (swath), treigl (revolution, turn), rhedfa (race, running), rhawd (career), hynt (way), gyrfa (career, race). (various references)

Zulu

isitsha (dish, plate, platter), ipuleti (dish, plate, platter), ilipuleti (dish, plate, platter). (various references)

anni, annis, anno, annorum, annos, annum, annus, catinus, contextum, curriculum, cursus, ferculum, gyro, gyrum, gyrus, hanni, mensa, mensae, mensam, mensamque, mensarum, mensas, mensis, orbita, tendat, tendebant, tendebatur, tendens, tendent, tendentem, tendentes, tenderent, tendit, tendunt, tetenderat, tetenderunt, tetenderuntque, tetendit, tetenditque, tractus, tramitem, tryblium. (various references)

adhwanem. (various references)

for. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "course": coursed, courser, coursers, courses, courseware, coursewares. (additional references)

Words ending with "course": concourse, discourse, intercourse, midcourse, minicourse, multicourse, nonintercourse, nonrecourse, racecourse, recourse, stringcourse, telecourse, watercourse. (additional references)

Words containing "course": concourses, discoursed, discourser, discoursers, discourses, intercourses, minicourses, multicourses, nonintercourses, racecourses, recourses, stringcourses, telecourses, watercourses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Course" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caures, caurs, clours, coarsa, coarsse, coeres, coerse, coeurs, coires, conures, cooorwee, Coosje, corsa, corse, Coubre, Coulsden, courbe, cource, Courcey, coure, coures, Couret, courge, courne, courre, cours, coursel, coursset, courte, courtel, courus, courve, couse, Coussey, Cukurca, Kourosh, nourse, ocure, oursel, oursen, sourse, yourse. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cerous, crouse, source.

-1 letter: ceros, cores, corse, cruse, cures, curse, ecrus, euros, roues, rouse, score, scour, sucre.

-2 letters: cero, core, cors, crus, cues, cure, curs, ecru, ecus, eros, euro, orcs, ores, ours, recs, rocs, roes, rose, roue, rues, ruse, sore, sour, suer, sure, user.

-3 letters: cor, cos, cue, cur, ecu, ers, oes, orc, ore, ors, ose, our.

+1 letter: acerous, bescour, carouse, chouser, closure, colures, coursed, courser, courses, couters, croupes, focuser, obscure, recoups, refocus, rouches, scoured, scourer, scourge, scouter, scrouge, sourced, sources, sucrose.

+2 letters: araceous, bescours, bouncers, caroused, carousel, carouser, carouses, cernuous, choregus, chorused, choruses, chousers, citreous, closured, closures, clotures, clouters, cocksure, coenures, coenurus, coinsure, conjures, conquers, construe, consumer, corneous, cornuses, corpuses, corulers, costumer, couchers, coughers, coulters, counters, couplers, courages, couriers, coursers, courters, courtesy, coutures, coverups, crocuses, croquets, crouches, crousely, crunodes, crustose, cupreous, customer, cutovers, cynosure, decorous, decorums, douceurs, eductors, focusers, frounces, fructose, grouches, mucrones, nacreous, obscured, obscurer, obscures, ocherous, ochreous, outcries, outcurse, outraces, outscore, overcuts, pouncers, precious, prefocus, procures, produces, racemous, recounts, recourse, reoccurs, resource, roebucks, sclerous, scourers, scourged, scourger, scourges, scouters, scouther, scrouged, scrouges, scrounge, sloucher, stuccoer, succored, succorer, sucroses, supercop, touchers, trounces, ulcerous, uncovers, vouchers.