course
/kɔɹs/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.44 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another."
- "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."
- "The course of true love never did run smooth."
- "Day and night, / Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course."
- "Doubts arose about the expediency of such a course in the present crisis."
- "There is but one course for me to follow: I'LL MOIDER THE BUM!"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-éti Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥séti Proto-Italic *korzō Latin currō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -sus Latin cursus Old French coursbor. Middle English cours English course 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kɔɹs/
- British English: /kɔːs/
Usage
- British usage
- Indian usage
- Obsolete
- Transitive verb
- Colloquial