cours
French, noun/kuʁ/
cours is spelled C-O-U-R-S (5 letters) and appears 407 times per million words in written French, the 204th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cours is a French masculine noun meaning “stream of water, river” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of cour. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mouvement d’écoulement naturel dans l’espace. → voir cours d’eau et …”.
What does cours mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestream of water, river
cours d'eau
- 2
masculinecourse (of events)
au cours de la guerre
- 3
masculineteaching, lesson, lecture, class
- 4
masculineavenue (wide, usually tree-lined street)
le Cours Mirabeau
noun
- 1
plural of cour
verb
- 1
first/second-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mouvement d’écoulement naturel dans l’espace. → voir cours d’eau et … 2. Flux, étendue parcourue par l’eau des fleuves, des rivières et des ruisseaux. → voir cours d’eau 3. Circulation d’un liquide canalisé dans un circuit. 4. Mouvement, course réel ou apparent des astres.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cours
- cor de ventre dialectal
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cours?
- /kuʁ/
- \kuʁ\
- [kuʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cours
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cours in French?
cours appears 407 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).