course

education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings

• “he took a course in basket weaving”
• “flirting is not unknown in college classes”

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”

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”

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”

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”

general line of orientation

• “the river takes a southern course”
• “the northeastern trend of the coast”

part of a meal served at one time

• “she prepared a three course meal”

(construction) a layer of masonry

• “a course of bricks”

as might be expected

• “naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill”

move swiftly through or over

• “ships coursing the Atlantic”

move along, of liquids

• “Water flowed into the cave”
• “the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi”

hunt with hounds

• “He often courses hares”