What is another word for course?

Synonyms for course
kɔrs, koʊrscourse

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English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. course

    A career was originally the ground for a race, or, especially, for a knight's charge in tournament or battle; whence career was early applied to the charge itself.

    If you will use the lance, take ground for your career.... The four horsemen met in full career.

    Scott Quentin Durward ch. 14, p. 194. [D. F. & CO.]

    In its figurative use career signifies some continuous and conspicuous work, usually a life-work, and most frequently one of honorable achievement. Compare BUSINESS.

    Synonyms:
    career, charge, flight, line of achievement, passage, public life, race, rush

Princeton's WordNet1.8 / 4 votes

  1. course, course of study, course of instruction, classnoun

    education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

    "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"

    Synonyms:
    path, form, family, program, stratum, grade, division, programme, year, class, course of instruction, course of study, trend, socio-economic class, syllabus, social class, line, row, track, curriculum, course of action, category

  2. course, linenoun

    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:
    billet, short letter, assembly line, crease, melodic phrase, argumentation, railway line, argument, bloodline, pedigree, product line, parentage, melodic line, rail line, channel, blood, contrast, business line, row, job, phone line, line of products, course of action, line of credit, occupation, credit line, grade, cable, personal line of credit, form, line of reasoning, pipeline, descent, demarcation, stemma, course of study, communication channel, bank line, agate line, path, line of work, dividing line, stock, business, trend, furrow, lineage, wrinkle, line of merchandise, note, origin, personal credit line, tune, class, line, line of descent, melody, telephone circuit, line of business, air, blood line, course of instruction, transmission line, strain, telephone line, seam, crinkle, production line, subscriber line, ancestry, track, logical argument

  3. course, trendnoun

    general line of orientation

    "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast"

    Synonyms:
    path, form, grade, vogue, style, trend, tendency, class, movement, course of instruction, course of study, drift, line, row, track, course of action

  4. course, course of actionnoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    trend, course of action, line, grade, form, course of study, class, row, course of instruction, track, path

  5. path, track, coursenoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    path, data track, form, rail, row, route, grade, runway, raceway, racecourse, cart track, caterpillar track, way, caterpillar tread, cut, course of instruction, course of study, trend, way of life, rails, trail, line, lead, class, track, itinerary, cartroad, course of action, racetrack, running

  6. class, form, grade, coursenoun

    a body of students who are taught together

    "early morning classes are always sleepy"

    Synonyms:
    category, ground level, figure, tier, flesh, frame, stratum, mark, kind, track, chassis, social class, physical body, grad, soma, row, course of action, score, human body, division, level, socio-economic class, grade, manikin, sort, form, mannikin, mannequin, conformation, phase, course of study, family, word form, trend, path, cast, gradation, configuration, class, variant, degree, pattern, bod, year, signifier, shape, descriptor, line, course of instruction, variety, strain, anatomy, physique, contour, var., material body, manakin, build

  7. coursenoun

    part of a meal served at one time

    "she prepared a three course meal"

    Synonyms:
    trend, course of action, line, grade, form, course of study, class, row, course of instruction, track, path

  8. course, rownoun

    (construction) a layer of masonry

    "a course of bricks"

    Synonyms:
    path, form, wrangle, run-in, grade, rowing, trend, words, class, course of instruction, course of study, quarrel, dustup, line, row, track, course of action

  9. courseverb

    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"

    Synonyms:
    trend, course of action, line, grade, form, course of study, class, row, course of instruction, track, path

  10. courseverb

    move swiftly through or over

    "ships coursing the Atlantic"

    Synonyms:
    run, feed, flow

  11. run, flow, feed, courseverb

    move along, of liquids

    "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

    Synonyms:
    operate, feed in, hunt, fly the coop, work, scat, run away, move, turn tail, eat, flux, range, run, guide, function, lead, lam, flow, melt down, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, consort, execute, feed, fall, feast, bleed, carry, scarper, go, unravel, prey, lean, play, die hard, race, pass, fertilise, fertilize, run for, black market, give, persist, incline, hang, draw, hightail it, be given, prevail, campaign, tend, escape, ladder, ply, menstruate, melt

  12. courseadverb

    hunt with hounds

    "He often courses hares"

    Synonyms:
    run, feed, flow

  13. naturally, of course, courseadverb

    as might be expected

    "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill"

    Synonyms:
    by nature, naturally, of course

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. coursenoun

    Synonyms:
    race, career

  2. coursenoun

    Synonyms:
    route, way, track, road

  3. coursenoun

    Synonyms:
    direction, bearing, point of compass, line of progress

  4. coursenoun

    Synonyms:
    round, beat

  5. coursenoun

    Synonyms:
    progress, process

  6. coursenoun

    Synonyms:
    regularity, order, succession, turn

  7. coursenoun

    Synonyms:
    deportment, line of conduct, manner of proceeding

  8. coursenoun

    Synonyms:
    series, system, methodical arrangement

  9. coursenoun

    Synonyms:
    set of dishes (at a banquet)

  10. courseverb

    Synonyms:
    pursue, hunt, chase, run after, give chase to

  11. courseverb

    Synonyms:
    run, move swiftly

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. coursenoun

    Synonyms:
    progress, passage, direction, bearing, heat, bout, round, procedure, sequence, routine, order, succession regularity, career, series

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How to use course in a sentence?

  1. Alan Gottlieb:

    I can’t say that it has had a major impact on it, of course, in light of any of those tragic instances, somebody will pass a law that’s unconstitutional and we will challenge that.

  2. Eric Rubin:

    The current vaccines do a pretty great job at keeping people out of hospitals, i don't really want to dismiss what we've got there. Of course, we always want better.

  3. Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan:

    This Pope has become a figure like Gandhi, or (President John F.) Kennedy, going beyond their own cultural surroundings. This Pope has gone beyond Catholicism. Of course he's leader of the Catholics, but many accept him as a moral leader, for someone like me -- who had worked on this problem for 40 years and became depressed last 10 years that I see the change happening but no action taken -- we see him as the hope.

  4. Anton Khlopkov:

    Does it guarantee that new countries will not create enrichment facilities? Of course not, but it creates additional incentives for new nations not to set up enrichment facilities.

  5. Sally Sliger:

    The odds of me and my family being given one million dollars overnight seemed impossibly small, it was surreal, of course.


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