course

course is a 6-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 31 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
2. noun. The ground or path traversed; track; way.
3. noun. Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
4. noun. Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.
5. noun. Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
6. noun. Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
7. noun. Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
8. noun. A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.
9. noun. The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
10. noun. That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
11. noun. A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
12. noun. The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
13. noun. The menses.
14. transitive verb. To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
15. transitive verb. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
16. transitive verb. To run through or over.
17. intransitive verb. To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.
18. intransitive verb. To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
19. noun. a mode of action

    "if you persist in that course you will surely fail"

    "once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place"

20. noun. education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

    "he took a course in basket weaving"

    "flirting is not unknown in college classes"

    Synonyms: class

21. noun. facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport

    "the course had only nine holes"

    "the course was less than a mile"

22. noun. (construction) a layer of masonry

    "a course of bricks"

    Synonyms: row

23. noun. part of a meal served at one time

    "she prepared a three course meal"

24. noun. a body of students who are taught together

    "early morning classes are always sleepy"

    Synonyms: class, form, grade

25. noun. a connected series of events or actions or developments

    "the government took a firm course"

    "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available"

    Synonyms: line

26. noun. general line of orientation

    "the river takes a southern course"

    "the northeastern trend of the coast"

    Synonyms: trend

27. noun. a line or route along which something travels or moves

    "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"

    "the track of an animal"

    Synonyms: path, track

28. verb. hunt with hounds

    "He often courses hares"

29. verb. move along, of liquids

    "Water flowed into the cave"

    "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

    Synonyms: feed, flow, run

30. verb. move swiftly through or over

    "ships coursing the Atlantic"

31. adverb. as might be expected

    "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill"

    Synonyms: naturally

Synonyms

class, row, form, grade, line, trend, path, track, feed, flow, run, naturally

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in course:

cerous, crouse, source

Common word forms

coursed, courser, courses, coursing

Words from these letters

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