COURSES Synonyms: 243 Similar and Opposite Words

courses 1 of 2

noun

plural of course

as in procedures

a way of acting or proceeding the president's usual course has been to obtain advice from several people and then make up his own mind

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as in classes

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

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as in processes

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

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as in routes

the direction along which something or someone moves the river follows a southeasterly course to the ocean

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as in canals

an open man-made passageway for water the Erie Canal was replaced by a much larger course, the New York State Barge Canal

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courses

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verb

present tense third-person singular of course

as in tracks

to go after or on the track of after coursing the conspirators for months, the federal agents closed in and made the arrests

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as in traverses

to make one's way through, across, or over once the threat of terrorism became apparent, fighter jets began coursing that corridor on a daily basis

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as in races

to proceed or move quickly racehorses coursing down the track

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Recent Examples of courses

Noun

Mauricio Novelli, the entrepreneur behind LIBRA, ran the investing courses where Adorni taught in 2022, and Adorni was among the officials in the room when Novelli brought his American partner, Hayden Davis, into the Casa Rosada for the LIBRA soirée. —

Javier Bastardo, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026 Fort Collins has 27 and both Meridian and the Grand Junction courses hover around 10. —

Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 13 June 2026 That’s because at intervals between courses came surprises that made an order-what-you-like dinner feel more like a tasting menu experience. —

Christine Sarkis, USA Today, 13 June 2026 The town earned its reputation thanks to the Citrus Golf Trail, a collection of 10 stellar courses that each offer gorgeous views and challenging design. —

Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 June 2026 While at Locke, senior Sashell Goss, 18, took Advanced Placement courses, enrolled in college classes and an on-campus nursing program and participated in athletics. —

Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026 The other workgroup will look into whether the A-G high school courses adequately prepare students for success at the UC. —

Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 11 June 2026 The iXi trolley uses two cameras and GPS that’s pre-loaded with maps of more than 40,000 courses to autonomously steer itself, with players able to issue commands via hand gestures or voice control. —

Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 5 June 2026 Brenda McAleer, dean of the College of Professional Studies at the University of Maine at Augusta — which is preparing to offer a bachelor’s of applied public administration — said the degrees were designed for adults who already have some work experience or have taken some college courses. —

Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2026

Verb

The same love of equality and freedom that courses through the Declaration motivated her white great-grandmother to campaign for suffrage and her African American grandfather to found a chapter of the NAACP in the Jim Crow South. —

Michael Kazin, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026 And about the obsession that courses through dozens of countries on the continent. —

Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 3 June 2026 But Open, Heaven also courses with youth’s great agony, the cruelty that learning to love should be inexorably followed by learning to grieve its undoing. —

Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026 Such is the power of cachaça, the essential and irresistible Brazilian sugar cane spirit that courses through each round of tropical cocktails passed across the bar. —

Elazar Sontag, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for courses

Noun

The lottery is reviewing all applicable rules and procedures to determine the proper remedy.

— Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
Teams can use it to verify procedures, assess control room interactions, and evaluate how operators respond under pressure.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026