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Etymology 1
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From Middle English cours, from Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of coarse and horse.
Noun
course (plural courses)
- A sequence of events.
The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.
- A normal or customary sequence.
- (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The course of true love never did run smooth.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Day and night, / Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course.
- A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
- Any ordered process or sequence or steps.
- A learning program, as in a school.
I need to take a French course.
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
- (especially in medicine) A treatment plan.
- A stage of a meal.
We offer seafood as the first course.
- The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
- (Can we date this quote?) Bible, 2 Chron. viii. 14
- He appointed […] the courses of the priests.
- A path that something or someone moves along.
His illness ran its course.
- The itinerary of a race.
The cross-country course passes the canal.
- A racecourse.
- The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
- (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
- (golf) A golf course.
- (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south.
- (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.
- (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.
- (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
- A row or file of objects.
- (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.
- (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
- (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
- (music) 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.
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Translations
normal or customary sequence
programme, chosen manner of proceeding
ordered process or sequence or steps
learning program
- Arabic: دَوْرَة (ar) f (dawra), (usually plural) دَوْرَات f (dawrāt), حَلَقَة دِرَاسِيَّة f (ḥalaqa dirāsiyya)
- Armenian: կուրս (hy) (kurs), դասընթաց (hy) (dasəntʻacʻ)
- Belarusian: курс m (kurs)
- Bulgarian: курс (bg) m (kurs)
- Catalan: curs (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 課程/课程 (fo3 cing4)
- Mandarin: 課程/课程 (zh) (kèchéng), 课程 (zh) (kèchéng)
- Czech: kurz (cs) m
- Danish: kursus (da) n
- Dutch: cursus (nl) m
- Esperanto: kurso (eo)
- Finnish: kurssi (fi)
- French: cours (fr)
- German: Kurs (de) m
- Hungarian: kurzus (hu), tanfolyam (hu)
- Icelandic: námskeið (is) n, námsbraut f
- Irish: cúrsa m
- Italian: corso (it) m
- Japanese: コース (kōsu), 課程 (ja) (かてい, katei)
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- Korean: 코스 (ko) (koseu), 과정 (ko) (gwajeong)
- Luxembourgish: Cours m
- Maori: akoranga, akomanga, kōhi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kurs (no) n
- Nynorsk: kurs n
- Polish: kurs (pl) m
- Portuguese: curso (pt) m, disciplina (pt) f, matéria (pt) f
- Romanian: curs (ro), oră (ro)
- Russian: курс (ru) m (kurs), (usually plural) ку́рсы (ru) m pl (kúrsy)
- Scots: coorse
- Serbo-Croatian: течај m (tečaj), kolegij (sh) m ((only college/academic course))
- Slovene: tečaj (sl)
- Spanish: curso (es) m
- Swedish: kurs (sv) c
- Ukrainian: курс m (kurs)
- Vietnamese: khoá học
- Walloon: cours (wa) m, luçon f
- Welsh: cwrs (cy) m
- Yiddish: קורס m (kurs)
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succession of one to another in office or duty
path that something or someone moves along
sports: trajectory of a ball etc.
nautical: direction of movement of a vessel
intended passage of voyage
lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast
— see also mainsail
textiles: in weft knitting, a single row of loops
music: pair of strings played together
Translations to be checked
Verb
course (third-person singular simple present courses, present participle coursing, simple past and past participle coursed)
- To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
- The oil coursed through the engine.
- Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
- 2013, Martina Hyde, "Is the pope Catholic?", The Guardian, 20 September 2013[1]
- He is a South American, so perhaps revolutionary spirit courses through Francis's veins. But what, pray, does the Catholic church want with doubt?
- (transitive) To run through or over.
- (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.
- (transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
- (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- We coursed him at the heels.
- (transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.
- to course greyhounds after deer
Translations
Etymology 2
Clipping of of course
Adverb
course (not comparable)
- (colloquial) Alternative form of of course
- 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
- "Course it's mighty hard to tell till we've put out a few traps," said the former, "but it looks to me like we've struck it lucky."
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French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French cours, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”), with influence of Italian corsa.
Pronunciation
Noun
course f (plural courses)
- run, running
- race
- errand
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French cours, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”).
Noun
course f (plural courses)
- (Jersey) course