Definitions for courses
cour·ses

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1. courses

   A name by which the sails hanging from the lower yards of a ship are usually distinguished, viz. the main-sail, fore-sail, and mizen: the staysails upon the lower masts are sometimes also comprehended in this denomination, as are the main staysails of all brigs and schooners. A ship is under her courses when she has no sail set but the fore-sail, main-sail, and mizen. Trysails are courses (which see), sometimes termed bentincks.

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1. coursesnoun

   Plural noun of the word course.

   The local college have a range of courses for students of all age ranges.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 26, 2017  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'courses' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1272

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'courses' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1889

Anagrams for courses »

1. Croesus, Crœsus, Scouser, scouser, sources, sucrose

2. Croesus

How to pronounce courses?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say courses in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of courses in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of courses in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of courses in a Sentence

1. Cheryl Hyman:

   We had students coming and taking a series of courses that may not have led anywhere.

2. Tony Jacklin:

   Almost all of them have started to use the driving iron, the two-iron, again so some sanity has come back into the game, the quicker these links courses play, the more difficult they are as it's harder to control the ball. I doubt whether any of the top players will be without their driving iron because it seems to have come back into the bags in the last year.

3. Defense Department -RRB- Austin:

   Critical race theory is not something that this department teaches, professes, embraces, you’ve also heard a couple of people at academic institutions say that they have required this to be reading for their students in specific courses. But because that’s the case does not mean that this department embraces this theory.

4. Charl Schwartzel:

   I like golf courses set up this way more than the ones where the guys can basically hit it anywhere and it becomes a little bit of a putting contest, this really, really shows the weakness in your game if there is anything, and it even shows the weakness in your mind, if there is anything like that too.

5. Tiger Woods:

   I think it's great for him to play, get the playing feels, keep the playing feels going, feels travel. He's played enough links-type golf courses.

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