Meaning of course in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A sequence of events.

  Example: The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.

• A path that something or someone moves along.

  Example: His illness ran its course.

• The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.

  Example: Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.

• (in the plural, courses) Menses.

• A row or file of objects.

• 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.

verb

• To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).

  Example: Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.

• To run through or over.

• To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.

• To cause to chase after or pursue game.

  Example: to course greyhounds after deer

adverb

• In due course; as a matter of course, as a natural result.

• Naturally, as would be expected; for obvious reasons, obviously.

  Example: Of course I know that!