cour
/ˈkʊə(ɹ)/
cour noun: a three-month unit of television broadcasting, corresponding to one of the four seasons.
Noun
cour (plural cours)
- A three-month unit of television broadcasting, corresponding to one of the four seasons.
- A portion of a television program aired over the course of one such period, usually comprising around 10 to 14 weekly episodes.
Forms of cour
| plural | cours |
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Origin of cour
Back-formation from cours from Japanese クール (kūru), from French cours. Attestable in English among the anime community from at least 2007. Anime News Network's Lexicon Encyclopedia dictates the original cours to be unchanged in singular form, though that has been reanalyzed as a plural form.
Phrases with cour
Words that rhyme with cour
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- muir
- obscure
- amour
- assure
- boor
- immure
- impure
- lure
- recure
- immature
- inure
- manure
- moor
- Darfur
- demure
- du jour
- fure
- insecure
- liqueur
- mure
- reassure
- roture
- Ruhr
- unsure
- adure
- allure
- bonheur du jour
- bonjour
- brochure
- bure
- chaussure
- combure
- couture
- de jour
- dhuhr
- dure
- guipure
- Kapur
- L'Anse Amour
- Namur
- parkour
- parure
- plat du jour
- poseur
- purpure
- smoor
- soup du jour
- spoor
Questions about cour
- What does cour mean?
- Cour means a three-month unit of television broadcasting, corresponding to one of the four seasons.
- What part of speech is cour?
- Cour is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cour?
- Cour is pronounced /ˈkʊə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of cour?
- The plural of cour is cours.
Words near cour in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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