different between courses vs courser

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôs??z, IPA^(key): /?k??s?z/
• (General American) enPR: kôrs??z, IPA^(key): /?k??s?z/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: k?rs??z, IPA^(key): /?ko(?)?s?z/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?ko?s?z/
• Hyphenation: courses

Noun

courses

1. plural of course

Noun

courses pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio 2007, p. 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.

Verb

courses

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

Anagrams

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

French

Verb

courses

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

Noun

courses f

1. (plural only) shopping, usually for food

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

2. plural of course

Anagrams

• secours
• sources

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English courser, borrowed from Anglo-Norman cursier, corser (French: coursier), from Old French curs (“course”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??s?/
• Homophones: curser, cursor

Noun

courser (plural coursers)

1. A dog used for coursing.
2. A person who practises coursing.
3. A hunter.
4. A stone used in building a course.
5. A racehorse or a charger.
6. Any of several species of bird in the genus Cursorius of the family Glareolidae.

Derived terms

• bronze-winged courser, Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
• Burchell's courser, Cursorius rufus
• cream-coloured courser, Cursorius cursor
• double-banded courser, Rhinoptilus africanus
• Indian courser, Cursorius coromandelicus
• Jerdon's courser, Rhinoptilus bitorquatus
• Somali courser, Cursorius somalensis
• Temminck's courser, Cursorius temminckii
• three-banded courser, Rhinoptilus cinctus

Translations

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• Correus, correus, scourer, sourcer

French

Etymology

From course.

Verb

courser

1. (colloquial) to purchase

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• recours