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Synonyms for course
Synonyms for course: class, row, track, trajectory and trend. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 5 synonyms for course
Interchangeable with course, one per sense
Audited under course's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one course carries in that sense.
- classnoun, in the sense "education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings"
- rownoun, in the sense "a layer of masonry"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name course as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- tracktrack is a noun in the sense "a line or route along which something travels or moves"
- trajectorytrajectory is a noun in the sense "the curved path followed by a moving object"
- trendtrend is a noun in the sense "general line of orientation"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under course and three under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
He took a course in basket weaving.
course in 2 more sentences, same sense
- She signed up for a course in wine tasting at the community center downtown.
- He is teaching a course on small engine repair every Tuesday evening this fall.
How it behaves: Course typically follows a verb like take, teach, or enroll in and pairs with the preposition in or on before the subject taught, in a fairly neutral, everyday register.
The true synonym
class
Same sentence, swapped: He took a class in basket weaving.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- path
- row
- extension
a layer of masonry
A course of bricks.
The true synonym
row
Same sentence, swapped: A row of bricks.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for course in the sentence quoted.
- class
- form
- wall
Where course turns up in the game
course is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play course
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so course reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from actions at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. course carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.