Course Meaning
/kɔːs/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA sequence of events.
nounA sequence of events., A normal or customary sequence.
Sentence Examples
It would of course be cheaper for you to sleep at our place.
You insist upon our taking that course of action.
The course of the stream has now been diverted.
CEFR Practice Quiz
During the main ____, the chef served roasted duck with herbs.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
It would of ____ be cheaper for you to sleep at our place.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English cours, from Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of cursus and cour.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Tilehurst would in the ordinary course have caught him up and they would have progressed companionably wheel by wheel for as far as their way lay together, discussing the simpler aspects of Tapsfield existence."
— 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
"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 Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
"Day and night, / Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course."
— 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
"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:
"Her course will be ‘Communication Studies with Theatre Studies’: God, how tedious, how pointless."
— 1992 August 21, Edwina Currie, Diary:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
During the main ____, the chef served roasted duck with herbs.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
It would of ____ be cheaper for you to sleep at our place.