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10,231 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

courriel indésirable: spam
courrieller: to email (to send an email or emails to)
courrier: messenger, courier; mail
courrier des lecteurs: letters to the editor
courrier indésirable: synonym of courriel indésirable
courrier électronique: electronic mail
courroie: strap; belt (especially in a machine); band; strip
courroucer: to enrage; to infuriate
courroucé: wrathful, irate
courroux: ire, wrath
cours: stream of water, river; course (of events); teaching, lesson, lecture, class; avenue (wide, usually tree-lined street)
cours d'eau: watercourse, waterway, stream, run
cours du soir: evening class
cours en ligne ouvert et massif: massive open online course
cours magistral: lecture
cours particulier: private lesson, one-on-one lesson
course: run, running; race; errand
course automobile: auto racing, motor racing; car race
course aux armements: arms race
course aux flambeaux: torch race
course camarguaise: spectacle in which a participant (raseteur) tries to snatch various objects (typically a cocarde) from the head of a young bull
course contre la montre: race against time (situation in which something must be done hurriedly, before a deadline)
course d'obstacles: obstacle course, obstacle race, assault course
course d'orientation: orienteering race
course de fond: long-distance race
course sur luge: sledge racing (a disabled sport analogue of ice speed skating on an ice sledge)
course à l'espace: space race
course à pied: footrace; running
course-poursuite: a chase
courser: to purchase; to chase
courses: shopping, usually for groceries, rarely for clothes.; plural of course
coursier: steed
coursier: courier, messenger
coursive: passageway, access corridor
court: court
court: short
court de tennis: a tennis court
court sur pattes: short-legged
court-bouillon: a court bouillon, a short broth
court-circuit: short circuit (an unintentional connection of low resistance or impedance in a circuit)
court-circuit magnétique: keeper (for a magnet)
court-circuiter: to short circuit; to bypass
court-courrier: short-haul
court-courrier: short-range aircraft, short-haul plane
court-métrage: short film
courtage: commission, fee taken by a broker; brokerage
courtaud: short (of a person); having a docked tail
courtauder: to dock (cut the tail of an animal)
courte échelle: leg up
courtement: shortly
courtepointe: quilt
courtier: broker; stockbroker
courtil: (small) garden, yard
courtilière: mole cricket
courtine: curtain; curtain wall (fortification)
courtisan: courtier; sycophant
courtisane: prostitute; courtesan; female courtier
courtisanerie: any action taken by a group of courtiers
courtiser: to court; to woo (to endeavor to gain someone's affection)
courtois: courtly; courteous, polite