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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : kawrs, kohrs
Phonetic Transcription : kɔrs, koʊrs



Definition of courses

Origin :
  • late 13c., "onward movement," from Old French cors (12c.) "course; run, running; flow of a river," from Latin cursus "a running race or course," from curs- past participle stem of currere "to run" (see current (adj.)).
  • Most extended senses (meals, etc.) are present in 14c. Academic meaning "planned series of study" is c.1600 (in French from 14c.). Phrase of course is attested from 1540s; literally "of the ordinary course;" earlier in same sense was bi cours (c.1300).
  • noun progress, advance
  • noun path, channel
  • noun length of action
  • noun plan of study
  • verb flow; run
Example sentences :
  • We can turn rivers in their courses, level mountains to the plains.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • But the sun already is low in the west, and there will scarce be light for these courses.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • It is said he delivered seventy courses of medical lectures.
  • Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
  • And what was it but want that drove them to both of these courses?
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • He felt a little gloomy while the courses went on, and wished he had an evening paper.
  • Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
  • My mind was full of my father's plans and of the courses which lay before me.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The main idea in all courses was to do what you had to but no more.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • Only a few of our officers had gone the round of "schools of instruction" and "courses."
  • Extract from : « With Manchesters in the East » by Gerald B. Hurst
  • All the courses in Teachers College are open to men and women.
  • Extract from : « The Enclosures in England » by Harriett Bradley
  • He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door, and himself has laid the courses.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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