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Of course   /əv kɔrs/   Listen
noun
Course  n.  
1.
The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. "And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais."
2.
The ground or path traversed; track; way. "The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket."
3.
Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance. "A light by which the Argive squadron steers Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore." "Westward the course of empire takes its way."
4.
Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.
5.
Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument. "The course of true love never did run smooth."
6.
Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws. "By course of nature and of law." "Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course."
7.
Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior. "My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action." "By perseverance in the course prescribed." "You hold your course without remorse."
8.
A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.
9.
The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn. "He appointed... the courses of the priests"
10.
That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments. "He (Goldsmith) wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties."
11.
(Arch.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
12.
(Naut.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
13.
pl. (Physiol.) The menses.
In course, in regular succession.
Of course, by consequence; as a matter of course; in regular or natural order.
In the course of, at same time or times during. "In the course of human events."
Synonyms: Way; road; route; passage; race; series; succession; manner; method; mode; career; progress.





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"Of course" Quotes from Famous Books



... was as completely opposed, in both appearance and character, to his seniors as could possibly be imagined or desired. He was not above twelve years old, fair, blue-eyed, and kind in temper to every living thing. He did not, of course, agree particularly well with his brothers, or, rather, they did not agree with him. He was usually appointed to the honourable office of turnspit, when there was anything to roast, which was not often; for, to do the brothers justice, they were hardly less sparing upon themselves ...
— Famous Stories Every Child Should Know • Various
... grew more gradual, and its base was grass-covered. Here the cub lost momentum. When at last he came to a stop, he gave one last agonised yell and then a long, whimpering wail. Also, and quite as a matter of course, as though in his life he had already made a thousand toilets, he proceeded to lick away the dry clay ...
— White Fang • Jack London
... his mortal body had crumbled into dust; but it was chiefly in theological lines, to which all thought now tended. Poetry, so far as drama or lyric verse was concerned, had been forsworn by the soul of every true Puritan, but "of course poetry was planted there too deep even for his theological grub- hooks to root out. If, however, his theology drove poetry out of many forms in which it has been used to reside, poetry itself practiced a noble revenge by taking up its abode in his theology." Stedman gives a masterly ...
— Anne Bradstreet and Her Time • Helen Campbell
... would you believe it? he was only the more provoked! Paul's exertion made his neglect seem all the worse, and he was positively angry with him for 'going and meddling, and poking his nose where he'd no concern. Now he shouldn't be able to get the stuff to-morrow, and so make it up; and of course mother would go and dock Paul's supper out of ...
— Friarswood Post-Office • Charlotte M. Yonge
... I was, of course, privy to this difficulty when I planned the present work, and entered upon it with no expectation that I should be able to embellish it with, almost, more than a very small number of hitherto unutilized notions. Moreover, I faced the additional ...
— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken


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