courses
/ˈkɔɹsɪz/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.46 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Nep [catnip] is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof."
- "Nicholas Culpeper similarly reports in seventeenth century that “the garden chervil doth moderately warm the stomach . . . it is good to provoke urine, or expel the stone in the kidneys, to send down women's courses and to help the pleurisy and prickling of the sides.”"
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɔɹsɪz/
- British English: /ˈkɔːsɪz/