courses

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôsʹĭz, IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːsɪz/
• (General American) enPR: kôrsʹĭz, IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹsɪz/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: kōrsʹĭz, IPA^(key): /ˈko(ː)ɹsɪz/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkoəsɪz/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪz, (rhotic, without the horse-hoarse merger) -oːɹsɪz, (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) -oəsɪz
• Hyphenation: courses

courses

1. plural of course

courses pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio, published 2007, page 201:

     Nep [catnip] is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.

   • 2008, Jack Staub, quoting Nicholas Culpeper, 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 51:

     Nicholas Culpeper similarly reports in seventeenth century that “the garden chervil doth moderately warm the stomach . . . it is good to provoke urine, or expel the stone in the kidneys, to send down women's courses and to help the pleurisy and prickling of the sides.”

courses

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of course

• Cousers, Croesus, Crouses, Crœsus, Scouser, rescous, scourse, scouser, sources, sucrose

courses

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of courser

courses f

1. (plural only) shopping, usually for groceries, rarely for clothes.

   Je vais faire les courses, je reviens dans une heure. (see also faire les courses)

2. plural of course

• secours
• sources

courses

1. plural of cours