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racecourse

racecourse noun: a course over which races are run.

Noun

racecourse (plural racecourses)

  1. A course over which races are run.
    • At one point they made a racecourse around the Sepulchre and some, almost in a state of nudity, danced about with frantic gestures, yelling and screaming as if possessed,2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 393
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) A racetrack where horse races are run.
    • By Savernake the train was 4½min early; we then had the thrill of sweeping through Newbury at 95 m.p.h.—and one wonders if any of the punters on the neighbouring racecourse had any eyes for our flying cavalcade as we swept by, for it was a race day—[...].1964 June, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 387

racecourse meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Punjabi and Gujarati

racecourse in Hindi

रेसकॉर्स

racecourse in Tamil

அடி

racecourse in Punjabi

ਰੇਸਕੌਰਸ

racecourse in Gujarati

રેસકોર્સ

Forms of racecourse

pluralracecourses

Plural of racecourse: racecourses

Origin of racecourse

From race + course.

Questions about racecourse

What does racecourse mean?
Racecourse means a course over which races are run.
What is racecourse in Hindi?
Racecourse in Hindi is रेसकॉर्स. See Racecourse meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is racecourse?
Racecourse is a noun.
What is the plural of racecourse?
The plural of racecourse is racecourses.

Words near racecourse in the dictionary

  1. racecard
  2. racecards
  3. racecars
  4. racecation
  5. racecations
  6. racecourse
  7. racecourses
  8. racecraft
  9. raced
  10. raced off
  11. raced out of the traps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: racecourse (page history and authors); racecourse (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); racecourse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); racecourse (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); racecourse (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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