courses
UK/ˈkɔːsɪz//ˈkɔɹsɪz/
courses is the plural of course.
courses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of course.
Meaning of course
Noun
course (plural courses)
- A sequence of events.
- The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.
- A normal or customary sequence.
- The course of true love never did run smooth.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
- A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
- Doubts arose about the expediency of such a course in the present crisis.
- Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
- There is but one course for me to follow: I'LL MOIDER THE BUM!1958 September 6, Weasel While You Work, spoken by the Barnyard Dawg
- A learning programme
- Her course will be ‘Communication Studies with Theatre Studies’: God, how tedious, how pointless.1992 August 21, Edwina Currie, Diary
- a series of lectures or lessons in a particular subject
- I need to take a French course.
Noun
courses pl (plural only)
- Menses.
- Nep [catnip] is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio, published 2007, page 201
- Nicholas Culpeper similarly reports in seventeenth century that “the garden chervil doth moderately warm the stomach . . . it is good to provoke urine, or expel the stone in the kidneys, to send down women's courses and to help the pleurisy and prickling of the sides.”2008, Jack Staub, quoting Nicholas Culpeper, 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 51
Phrases with courses
- due courses
- gut courses
- back courses
- belt courses
- bird courses
- core courses
- damp courses
- golf courses
- main courses
- mill courses
- time courses
- crash courses
28 more phrasesFewer phrases
- ridge courses
- ropes courses
- access courses
- mizzen courses
- string courses
- weeder courses
- assault courses
- service courses
- blocking courses
- courses to steer
- obstacle courses
- sandwich courses
- Bestuzhev courses
- clerks of courses
- collision courses
- courses of action
- courses of events
- refresher courses
- confidence courses
- conversion courses
- courses for horses
- damp-proof courses
- horses for courses
- protection courses
- stretching courses
- thin sandwich courses
- correspondence courses
- thick sandwich courses
Words that rhyme with courses
Questions about courses
- What does courses mean?
- Courses means menses.
- What is courses the plural of?
- Courses is the plural of course.
- What part of speech is courses?
- Courses is a noun.
- How do you pronounce courses?
- Courses is pronounced /ˈkɔːsɪz/ (UK).
Words near courses in the dictionary
Source and license
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