course

Adverb

• as might be expected
  • naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill
    

Noun

• 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
    

• (construction) a layer of masonry
  • a course of bricks
    

• part of a meal served at one time
  • she prepared a three course meal
    

• a body of students who are taught together
  • early morning classes are always sleepy
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• general line of orientation
  • the river takes a southern course
    
  • the northeastern trend of the coast
    

• 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
    

• education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
  • he took a course in basket weaving
    
  • flirting is not unknown in college classes
    

Verb

• hunt with hounds
  • He often courses hares
    

• move along, of liquids
  • Water flowed into the cave
    
  • the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
    

• move swiftly through or over
  • ships coursing the Atlantic
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  naturally , of course , row , class , form , grade , path , track , course of action , trend , line , course of study , course of instruction , run , flow , feed