A piece of secular vocal music of a kind popular in France in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period, from about 1570 until around 1650.

A normal or customary sequence. / A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding. / Any ordered process or sequence of steps. / A learning programme, whether a single class or (UK) a major area of study.

To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood). / (transitive) To run through or over.

(colloquial) Ellipsis of of course.

(now rare, except in matter of course) That is part of ordinary behaviour or custom; customary, natural.

(now rare) In due course; as a matter of course, as a natural result. / Naturally, as would be expected; for obvious reasons, obviously.

Indicates enthusiastic agreement.

(idiomatic) A quick, intense course of learning, especially one which is informal or hurried.

(idiomatic) To persist or continue.

plural of course