curso
Spanish, noun
curso is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “course, trajectory, route, direction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of cursar. With an accent, cursó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of cursar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dirección del movimiento de algo”.
What does curso mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecourse, trajectory, route, direction
- 2
masculineclass, course (learning program, as in a school)
un curso intensivo
- 3
masculine(US) grade, (UK) year
- 4
Mexicocolloquialmasculinediarrhea
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of cursar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of cursar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dirección del movimiento de algo. 2. Movimiento del agua. 3. Conjunto de alumnos que comparten una clase.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of curso
- cursos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to curso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is curso in Spanish?
curso appears 85 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).