courses

See also: coursés

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôsʹĭz, IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːsɪz/
• (General American) enPR: kôrsʹĭz, IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹsɪz/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: kōrsʹĭz, IPA^(key): /ˈko(ː)ɹsɪz/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkoəsɪz/

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• Hyphenation: courses

Noun

courses

1. plural of course

Noun

courses pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio 2007, p. 201:

     Nep [catnip] is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.

Verb

courses

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of course

Anagrams

• Cousers, Croesus, Crouses, Crœsus, Scouser, rescous, scourse, scouser, sources, sucrose

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French

Verb

courses

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of courser

Noun

courses f

1. (plural only) shopping, usually for groceries, rarely for clothes.

   Je vais faire les courses, je reviens dans une heure. (see also faire les courses)

2. plural of course

Anagrams

• secours
• sources

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Middle English

Noun

courses

1. plural of cours