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courseload

courseload is the alternative spelling of course load.

Meaning of course load

Noun

course load (plural course loads)

  1. The workload involved in an academic course.
    • A Type-A — make that A-plus — overachiever, even by New York standards, she skated competitively as a kid, finished M.I.T. in three and a half years, and tested out of a chunk of her courseload at Columbia Business School.2009 August 18, Susan Dominus, “Connecting Anxious Parents and Educators, at $450 an Hour”, in New York Times
  2. The number and difficulty of courses taken in an academic setting.

Forms of courseload

pluralcourseloads

Origin of courseload

From course + load.

Questions about courseload

What is courseload the alternative spelling of?
Courseload is the alternative spelling of course load.

Words near courseload in the dictionary

  1. coursebooks
  2. coursecest
  3. coursed
  4. courseless
  5. courselike
  6. courseload
  7. courseloads
  8. coursemate
  9. coursemates
  10. Coursen
  11. Coursens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: courseload (page history and authors); course load (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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