Noun

• S: (n) course, course of study, course of instruction, class (education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings) "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"
• S: (n) course, line (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"
• S: (n) course, trend (general line of orientation) "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast"
• S: (n) course, course of action (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"
• S: (n) path, track, course (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"
• S: (n) class, form, grade, course (a body of students who are taught together) "early morning classes are always sleepy"
• S: (n) course (part of a meal served at one time) "she prepared a three course meal"
• S: (n) course, row ((construction) a layer of masonry) "a course of bricks"
• S: (n) 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"

Verb

• S: (v) course (move swiftly through or over) "ships coursing the Atlantic"
• S: (v) run, flow, feed, course (move along, of liquids) "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
• S: (v) course (hunt with hounds) "He often courses hares"

Adverb

• S: (adv) naturally, of course, course (as might be expected) "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill"