What is the meaning of course?

noun

• Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings.
  • usage: "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"
  • synonyms: course of study, course of instruction, class
• A connected series of events or actions or developments.
  • usage: "the government took a firm course"; "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available"
  • synonyms: line
• General line of orientation.
  • usage: "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast"
  • synonyms: trend
• A mode of action.
  • usage: "if you persist in that course you will surely fail"; "once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place"
  • synonyms: course of action
• A line or route along which something travels or moves.
  • usage: "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"
  • synonyms: path, track
• A body of students who are taught together.
  • usage: "early morning classes are always sleepy"
  • synonyms: class, form, grade
• Part of a meal served at one time.
  • usage: "she prepared a three course meal"
• Construction) a layer of masonry. (
  • usage: "a course of bricks"
  • synonyms: row
• Facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport.
  • usage: "the course had only nine holes"; "the course was less than a mile"

verb

• Move swiftly through or over.
  • usage: "ships coursing the Atlantic"
• Move along, of liquids.
  • usage: "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
  • synonyms: run, flow, feed
• Hunt with hounds.
  • usage: "He often courses hares"

adverb

• As might be expected.
  • usage: "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill"
  • synonyms: naturally, of course