Meaning

noun education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

noun a connected series of events or actions or developments

noun general line of orientation

originFrom 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.

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