Entry Word: course

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a way of acting or proceeding <the presidentʼs usual course has been to obtain advice from several people and then make up his own mind>

Synonyms line, policy, procedure, program

Related Words blueprint, design, plan, scheme, strategy; intent, intention, purpose; approach, direction, path, pathway, tack

2 a series of lectures on a subject <a course on American history from the colonial period to the present>

Synonyms class

Related Words elective, refresher, seminar; core, curriculum

3 a usually fixed or ordered series of actions or events leading to a result <set out on the course that would lead to a college degree> — see process 1
4 the direction along which something or someone moves <the river follows a southeasterly course to the ocean> — see path 1