course

A sequence of events.

• The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.

A sequence of events.; A normal or customary sequence.

• The course of true love never did run smooth.
• Day and night, / Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course.

A sequence of events.; A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.

• Doubts arose about the expediency of such a course in the present crisis.

A sequence of events.; Any ordered process or sequence of steps.

• There is but one course for me to follow: I'LL MOIDER THE BUM!

A sequence of events.; A learning programme

• Her course will be ‘Communication Studies with Theatre Studies’: God, how tedious, how pointless.

A sequence of events.; A learning programme

• I need to take a French course.

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• What's your course in university? —Business studies. And you?

A sequence of events.; A treatment plan.especially

• Miss Clark, alarmed at her increasing stoutness, was doing a course of what is popularly known as banting.

A sequence of events.; A stage of a meal.

• We offer seafood as the first course.

A sequence of events.; The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.

• He appointed […] the courses of the priests.

To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).

• The oil coursed through the engine.
• Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.

To run through or over.transitive

To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.transitive

• We coursed him at the heels.

To cause to chase after or pursue game.transitive

• to course greyhounds after deer

Ellipsis of of course.abbreviationalt-ofcolloquial

• "Course it's mighty hard to tell till we've put out a few traps," said the former, "but it looks to me like we've struck it lucky."
• Course, my home wasn't exactly in Harlem […]