Definition of course

"course" in the noun sense

1. course, course of study, course of instruction, class

education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

"he took a course in basket weaving"

"flirting is not unknown in college classes"

2. course, line

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"

3. course, trend

general line of orientation

"the river takes a southern course"

"the northeastern trend of the coast"

4. course, course of action

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"

5. path, track, course

a line or route along which something travels or moves

"the hurricane demolished houses in its path"

"the track of an animal"

"the course of the river"

6. class, form, grade, course

a body of students who are taught together

"early morning classes are always sleepy"

7. course

part of a meal served at one time

"she prepared a three course meal"

8. course, row

construction) a layer of masonry

"a course of bricks"

9. course

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"

"course" in the verb sense

1. course

move swiftly through or over

"ships coursing the Atlantic"

2. run, flow, feed, course

move along, of liquids

"Water flowed into the cave"

"the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

3. course

hunt with hounds

"He often courses hares"

"course" in the adverb sense

1. naturally, of course, course

as might be expected

"naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill"

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Quotations for course

Time rolls his ceaseless course. [ Scott ]

Then on! then on! where duty leads,
My course be onward still. [ Bishop Heber ]

Water its living strength first shows.
When obstacles its course oppose. [ Goethe ]

Press onward through each varying hour;
Let no weak fears thy course delay;
Immortal being! feel thy power,
Pursue thy bright and endless way. [ Andrews Norton ]

In everything the middle course is best. [ Plautus ]

Here rills of oily eloquence in soft
Meanders lubricate the course they take. [ Cowper ]

Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
And loves through solid walls do break. [ Francis ]

A middle way or course; any middle course. [ Motto ]

Experience is by industry achieved,
And perfected by the swift course of time. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentleman of Verona ]

Keep a mid course between the two extremes. [ Ovid ]

To persevere
In obstinate condolement, is a course
Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief:
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Westward the course of empire takes its way. [ Berkeley ]

The glorious sun
Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,
Turning with splendor of his precious eye
The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]

Ah me! for aught that ever I could read ...
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

Gradual sinks the breeze,
Into a perfect calm; that not a breath
I heard to quiver thro' the closing woods,
Or rustling turn the many twinkling leaves,
Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods diffused?
In glassy breadth, seen through delusive lapse
Forgetful of their course. 'Tis silence all.
And pleasing expectation. [ Thomson ]

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;
Another race, the following spring supplies;
They fall successive, and successive rise:
So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these, when those have passed away. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]

Fame points the course, and glory leads the way. [ Pye ]

Genius! thou gift of Heaven! thou Light divine!
Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!
Oft will the body's weakness check thy force,
Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course;
And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain
Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain;
Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come,
And breathe around her melancholy gloom:
To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine,
And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine. [ Crabbe ]

You will go safest in the middle or in a middle course. [ Ovid ]

I see and approve the better course, but I follow the worse. [ Ovid ]

All impediments in fancy's course are motives of more fancy. [ William Shakespeare ]

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. [ Suckling ]

A natural propension will have its course; especially a bad one. [ Proverb ]

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race. [ Scott ]

To be silent is the safest course for the man who distrusts his own powers. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. [ Plautus ]

Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the most easy. [ Tillotson ]

Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone
To reverence what is ancient, and can plead
A course of long observance for its use.
That even servitude, the worst of ills,
Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! [ Cowper ]

Let me embrace these sour adversities, for wise men say it is the wisest course. [ Shakespeare ]

Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast. [ William Shakespeare ]

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [ Plautus ]

Perseverance is the continuance in any design, state, opinion, or course of action. [ C. Buck ]

It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong. [ Spenser ]

Upon the common course of life must our thoughts and our conversation be generally employed. [ Johnson ]

Caracci's strength, Correggio's softer line, Paulo's free course, and Titian's warmth divine. [ Pope ]

Wrongs do not leave off there where they begin, but still beget new mischiefs in their course. [ Daniel ]

We are hampered, alas! in our course of life quite as much by what we do as by what we suffer. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix his course. [ Metastasio, Achille ]

Long customs are not easily broken: he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain. [ Johnson ]

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives. [ Burke ]

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without. [ Phillips Brooks ]

The year in its course, and the hour that speeds the kindly day, admonishes you not to hope for immortal (i.e. permanent) blessings. [ Horace ]

If time inflicts on thee many a wound, many a joy brings it too in its course; and one short hour of bliss outweighs a year of pains. [ Geibel ]

Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe. What power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity! [ George D. Prentice ]

A good heart is the sun and moon, or, rather, the sun. and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps its course truly. [ William Shakespeare ]

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may? [ Thackeray ]

On the Greek stage, a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day. [ Coleridge ]

Depend upon it, my younger brethren, the bright, self-sacrificing enthusiasms of early manhood are among the most precious things in the whole course of human life. [ H. P. Liddon ]

That, of course, they are many in number, or that, after all, they are, other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. [ Burke ]

There is one preacher who does preach with effect, and gradually persuade all persons; his name is Destiny, Divine Providence, and his sermon the inflexible course of things. [ Carlyle ]

Some women have in the course of their lives a double engagement to sustain, equally difficult to break or to dissimulate: in one case the contract is wanting, in the other the heart. [ La Bruyere ]

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped. [ Jeremy Collier ]

When the wandering demon of Drunkenness finds a ship adrift - no steady wind in its sails, no thoughtful pilot directing its course - he steps on board, takes the helm and steers straight for the maelstrom. [ Holmes ]

In the whole course of our observation there is not so misrepresented and abused a personage as Death. The shortest life is long enough if it lead to a better, and the longest life is too short if it does not. [ Colton ]

Love one human being with warmth and purity, and thou wilt love the world. The heart, in that celestial sphere of love, is like the sun in its course. From the drop on the rose to the ocean, all is for him a mirror, which he fills and brightens. [ Jean Paul ]

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials: when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things. [ Shenstone ]

There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom: and it may be said, that as rivers, which run very slowly, have always the most mud at the bottom: so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man's life, is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain. [ Saville ]

Man reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven. [ Humboldt ]

The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion, - Death! Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, - of Immortality! [ Charles Dickens ]

If there were no readers there certainly would be no writers. Clearly, therefore, the existence of writers depends upon the existence of readers; and, of course, as the cause must be antecedent to the effect, readers existed before writers. Yet, on the other hand, if there were no writers there could be no readers, so it should appear that writers must be antecedent to readers. [ Paul Chatfield, M.D ]

If I might venture to appeal to what is so much out of fashion at Paris, I mean to experience, I should tell you that in my course I have known and, according to my measure, have cooperated with great men; and I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. [ Burke ]

Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon. [ Hillard ]

Your invitation honors me, and pleases me because you still keep me in your remembrance, but I am seventy; seventy, and would nestle in the chimney-corner, and smoke my pipe, and read my book, and take my rest, wishing you well in all affection; and that when you in your return shall arrive at pier No. 70 you may step aboard your waiting ship with a reconciled spirit, and lay your course toward the sinking sun with a contented heart. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself, it is not confined to partial views, or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself, its own integrity and worth. Hope awakens courage, while despondency is the last of all evils, it is the abandonment of good, the giving up of the battle of life with dead nothingness. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. [ Von Knebel (German), Translated by Mrs. Austin ]

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The word course is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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course in Words With Friends™

The word course is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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Word Growth involving course

Shorter words in course

our ours

Longer words containing course

concourse concourses

coursebook coursebooks

coursed discoursed

courser coursers

courses concourses

courses discourses

courses intercourses

courses racecourses

courses telecourses

courses watercourses

courseware coursewares

coursework courseworks

discourse discoursed

discourse discourses

intercourse intercourses

intercourse nonintercourse

midcourse

racecourse racecourses

recourse

telecourse telecourses

watercourse watercourses