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coursers

coursers is the plural of courser.

Meaning of courser

Noun

courser (plural coursers)

  1. A dog used for coursing.
  2. A hunter who practises coursing.
  3. A swift horse; a racehorse or a charger.
    • Sir Launfal is instantly set at liberty (and vaulting on the courser his mistress had bestowed on him (and which was held at hand by his squire (he follows her out of the town.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 57
  4. Any of several species of terrestrial bird in the genera Cursorius and Rhinoptilus.
  5. A stone used in building a course.

Phrases with coursers

Questions about coursers

What is coursers the plural of?
Coursers is the plural of courser.

Words near coursers in the dictionary

  1. Coursen
  2. Coursens
  3. coursepack
  4. coursepacks
  5. courser
  6. coursers
  7. courses
  8. courses for horses
  9. courses of action
  10. courses of events
  11. courses to steer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coursers (page history and authors); courser (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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