course – English noun declension

English noun forms of course

Noun: course
Singularcourse
Pluralcourses

Sample 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. [1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:]
  • The course of true love never did run smooth. [c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
  • Day and night, / Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course. [1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • There is but one course for me to follow: I'LL MOIDER THE BUM! [1958 September 6, Weasel While You Work, spoken by the Barnyard Dawg:]
  • Her course will be ‘Communication Studies with Theatre Studies’: God, how tedious, how pointless. [1992 August 21, Edwina Currie, Diary:]
  • Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete. [2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:]
  • I need to take a French course.
  • What's your course in university?
  • —Business studies. And you?
  • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…] [1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond:]
  • Miss Clark, alarmed at her increasing stoutness, was doing a course of what is popularly known as banting. [1932, Agatha Christie, The Thirteen Problems:]
  • We offer seafood as the first course.
  • He appointed […] the courses of the priests. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 8:14:]
  • His illness ran its course.
  • The cross-country course passes the canal.
  • The ship changed its course 15 degrees towards south.
  • A course was plotted to traverse the ocean.
  • It was curious to Oakfield to be back on the Ferozepore course, after a six months' interval, which seemed like years. How much had happened in these six months! [1853, William Delafield Arnold, Oakfield; or, Fellowship in the East, section II, page 124:]
  • Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.
  • The bleeding body signifies as a shameful token of uncontrol, as a failure of physical self-mastery particularly associated with woman in her monthly "courses". [2018, Gail Kern Paster, The Body Embarrassed, Cornell University, page 92:]
  • On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.

Etymology

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. See: Middle English Nouns 'cours', Latin Nouns 'cursus'.

Verbs referencing "course"

German Nouns Kurs, Russian Nouns курс.