Court vs. Course — What's the Difference?

An institution to administer justice.

A series of academic lessons or studies.

The act of wooing or trying to gain favor.

Development in a particular way; progress

A place where royalty resides.

Movement in time; duration

A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law. In both common law and civil law legal systems, courts are the central means for dispute resolution, and it is generally understood that all people have an ability to bring their claims before a court.

The direction of continuing movement

An extent of open ground partially or completely enclosed by walls or buildings; a courtyard.

The route or path taken by something that moves, such as a stream or vehicle.

Abbr. Ct. A short street, especially a wide alley walled by buildings on three sides.

A designated route or area on which a race is held

A large open section of a building, often with a glass roof or skylight.

See golf course.

A large building, such as a mansion, arranged around a courtyard.

A mode of action or behavior

The place of residence of a sovereign or dignitary; a royal mansion or palace.

A typical, natural, or customary manner of proceeding or developing

The retinue of a sovereign, including the royal family and personal servants, advisers, and ministers.

A systematic or orderly succession; a sequence

A sovereign's governing body, including the council of ministers and state advisers.

A continuous layer of building material, such as brick or tile, on a wall or roof of a building.

A formal meeting or reception presided over by a sovereign.

A complete body of prescribed studies constituting a curriculum

A person or body of persons that presides over the hearing of cases; a judge or panel of judges.

A unit of such a curriculum

The building, hall, or room where cases are heard.

A part of a meal served as a unit at one time

The session at which cases are heard.

(Nautical) The lowest sail on a mast of a square-rigged ship.

An ecclesiastical court.

A point on the compass, especially the one toward which a vehicle, such as a ship, is moving.

(Sports) An open level area marked with appropriate lines, upon which a game, such as tennis, handball, or basketball, is played.

(Music) A string or set of two or more closely-spaced and usually identically-tuned strings, as on a lute.

The body of directors of an organization, especially of a corporation.

To move swiftly through or over; traverse

A legislative assembly.

To hunt (game) with hounds.

To attempt to gain; seek

To set (hounds) to chase game.

To behave so as to invite or incur

To proceed or move swiftly in a certain direction or along a course

To try to gain the love or affections of, especially to seek to marry.

To hunt game with hounds.

To attempt to gain the favor of by attention or flattery

A sequence of events.

(Zoology) To behave so as to attract (a mate).

A normal or customary sequence.

To pursue a courtship; woo.

A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.

(Zoology) To engage in courtship behavior.

Any ordered process or sequence of steps.

An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.

A learning programme, whether a single class or (UK) a major area of study.

A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.

A treatment plan.

A housing estate under the House Ownership Scheme.

A stage of a meal.

An apartment building, or a small development of several apartment buildings.

The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.

(social) Royal society.

A path that something or someone moves along.

The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.

The itinerary of a race.

The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.

A racecourse.

Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.

The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.

Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone

(sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.

(law) The administration of law.

(golf) A golf course.

The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

(nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.

The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.

(navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.

(often capitalized) The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.

The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.

The session of a judicial assembly.

(nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.

Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.

Menses.

(sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games

A row or file of objects.

One of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play

(masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.

(transitive) To seek to achieve or win.

(roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.

(transitive) To risk (a consequence, usually negative).

(textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.

(transitive) To try to win a commitment to marry from.

(music) One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to played together.

(transitive) To engage in behavior leading to mating.

To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).

(transitive) To attempt to attract.

(transitive) To run through or over.

(transitive) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

(transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.

(transitive) To attempt to gain alliance with.

(transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.

(intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

(intransitive) To engage in courtship behavior.

The ground or path traversed; track; way.

An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.

Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.

The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.

Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.

The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.

Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.

Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court.

Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.

Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.

Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.

The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.

The session of a judicial assembly.

The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.

Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.

That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.

A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.

A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.

To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.

The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.

To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.

The menses.

To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.

To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.

To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.

To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.

To run through or over.

An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.

The sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state

To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.

A specially marked area within which a game is played;

Education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings;

A room in which a law court sits;

A connected series of events or actions or developments;

A yard wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings;

Facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport;

The residence of a sovereign or nobleman;

A mode of action;

The family and retinue of a sovereign or prince

A line or route along which something travels or moves;

A hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area

General line of orientation;

Australian woman tennis player who won many major championships (born in 1947)

Part of a meal served at one time;

Respectful deference;

(construction) a layer of masonry;

Make amorous advances towards;

Move swiftly through or over;

Seek someone's favor;

Move along, of liquids;

Engage in social activities leading to marriage;

Hunt with hounds;

An enclosed area for games or sports.

As might be expected;

The people associated with a ruler.

A direction or path.

A part of a meal.

The way in which something progresses.

A designated area for a race or golf.

No, it can also refer to an area for sports, a royal residence, or the act of wooing.

It refers to a specific part of a meal, like the appetizer, main course, or dessert.

Yes, "to court" someone means to woo or pursue them romantically.

"Court" mainly refers to a legal institution, while "Course" often denotes a direction, path, or academic study.

Primarily, yes, but both can be used differently, like "to court" someone or "course through" as in a river.

No, it can refer to a path, the flow of events, or parts of a meal, among other meanings.

It means to alter one's direction or plan.

Yes, as in "courting" someone or trying to gain their favor.

It can refer to the place where royalty resides or the people associated with a ruler.

Yes, like a golf Course or a racing Course.

It's a formal setting where legal cases are heard and decided.