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English

Noun

cours (plural courses)

1. Obsolete form of course.

Anagrams

• Orcus, scour, sucro-

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?/
• Homophones: cour, coure, courent, coures, courre, court, courts
• Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

From Old French cours, inherited from Latin cursus. Doublet of cursus.

Noun

cours m (plural cours)

1. stream of water, river

   cours d'eau - water stream

2. course (of events)

   au cours de la guerre - over [the course of] the war, during the war

3. teaching, lesson, lecture, class

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

cours

1. first-person singular present indicative of courir
2. second-person singular present indicative of courir
3. second-person singular imperative of courir

Further reading

• “cours” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French cours, from Latin cursus.

Noun

cours (plural courses)

1. course
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 8-9.

     Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,

     And smale foweles maken melodye,

Descendants

• Scots: coorse
• English: course

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

cours m (plural cours)

1. (Jersey) currency

Old French

Etymology

From Latin cursus.

Noun

cours m (oblique plural cours, nominative singular cours, nominative plural cours)

1. route; course; way

Related terms

• courre

Descendants

• French: cours
• ? Middle English: cours
  • Scots: coorse
  • English: course

English

Etymology

From Middle English court, from Old French cort, curt, from Latin c?rtem (accusative of c?rs), ultimately from cohors. Doublet of cohort.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko?t/
• Homophone: caught (non-rhotic with the horse-hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

court (plural courts)

1. An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
   • 1832, Alfred Tennyson, The Palace of Art

     And round the cool green courts there ran a row / Of cloisters.
   1. (US, Australia) A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
2. (social) Royal society.
   1. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
   2. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
      • 1819-1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan

        Love rules the court, the camp, the grove.

   3. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
3. Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone
   • 1667, John Evelyn, Diary entry 18 April, 1667

     I went to make court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle at their house in Clerkenwell.

4. (law) The administration of law.
   1. The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

   2. The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
   3. (often capitalized) The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
   4. The session of a judicial assembly.

   5. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
5. (sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games
   1. one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play
      • 2010, Cara Marcus, Faulkner Hospital

        The photograph at left captures a great serve by Dr. Sadowsky, who will never forget one of Bobby Riggs's serves, which had such a great spin that it landed in his court and bounced back to the other side of the net before he had a chance to return it.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Russian: ???? (kort) (see there for further descendants)

Translations

Verb

court (third-person singular simple present courts, present participle courting, simple past and past participle courted)

1. (transitive) To seek to achieve or win.
2. (transitive) To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
3. (transitive) To try to win a commitment to marry from.
4. (transitive) To engage in behavior leading to mating.

5. (transitive) To attempt to attract.
6. (transitive) To attempt to gain alliance with.
7. (intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.

   Synonyms: romance, solicit; see also Thesaurus:woo

8. (intransitive) To engage in courtship behavior.

9. (transitive) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

   Synonyms: charm, entrance; see also Thesaurus:allure

Translations

Further reading

• court on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Crout, Curto, Turco, Turco-, crout

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?/
• Homophones: cour, coure, courent, coures, courre, cours, courts
• Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

From Old French curt, from Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

Adjective

court (feminine singular courte, masculine plural courts, feminine plural courtes)

1. short

Derived terms

Related terms

• accourcir
• écourter

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

court

1. third-person singular present indicative of courir

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English court.

Noun

court m (plural courts)

1. (tennis) court

Derived terms

• fond de court

Further reading

• “court” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• courte

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French cort, curt.

Noun

court (plural courts)

1. court (place, building)

Descendants

• English: court

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cort, curt, etc.

Noun

court f (plural cours)

1. court (of law)
2. court (of a palace, etc.)

Descendants

• French: cour

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (court, supplement)

Norman

Etymology

From Old French curt, from Latin curtus (“shortened, short”).

Adjective

court m

1. (Jersey) short

Derived terms

• courtément (adverb)

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French curt, from Latin curtus.

Adjective

court m (feminine singular courte, masculine plural courts, feminine plural courtes, feminine plural (before noun) courtès)

1. short