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Courses

/ˈkɔːsɪz/

A sequence of events.

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📖 Definitions of "Courses"

noun

1
A sequence of events.
"The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another."
2
A path that something or someone moves along.
"His illness ran its course."
3
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."
4
(in the plural, courses) Menses.

verb

1
To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
"Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries."
2
To run through or over.
3
To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
4
To cause to chase after or pursue game.
"to course greyhounds after deer"

noun

1
Menses.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Courses"

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Word	Definition
of course	Naturally, as would be expected; for obvious reasons, obviously.
naturally	In a natural manner.
trendnoun	A fad or fashion style.
classnoun	(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
rownoun	A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.
runnoun	Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
linenoun	A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
flownoun	Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
pathnoun	A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
tracknoun	A mark left by something that has passed along.
course of instructionnoun	education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings
course of studynoun	an integrated course of academic studies
runsnoun	(slang, often with "the") Diarrhea/diarrhoea.
schoolnoun	(India, Canada, US) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
currentnoun	(by extension, South Asia) electricity, power in general.
partnoun	A portion; a component.
headwatersnoun	The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
periodnoun	(now chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
formationnoun	The act of assembling a group or structure. [from 14th c.]
waysnoun	(informal, US, sometimes figurative, usually preceded by a) A distance.