COURSE OF LECTURES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does course of lectures mean? 

• COURSE OF LECTURES (noun)
  The noun COURSE OF LECTURES has 1 sense:

1. a series of lectures dealing with a subject

  Familiarity information: COURSE OF LECTURES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COURSE OF LECTURES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A series of lectures dealing with a subject

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("course of lectures" is a kind of...):

class; course; course of instruction; course of study (education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings)

Holonyms ("course of lectures" is a part of...):

course of study; curriculum; program; programme; syllabus (an integrated course of academic studies)

 Context examples 

You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So saying, he stepped aside and wrote down a list of several books treating of natural philosophy which he desired me to procure, and dismissed me after mentioning that in the beginning of the following week he intended to commence a course of lectures upon natural philosophy in its general relations, and that M. Waldman, a fellow professor, would lecture upon chemistry the alternate days that he omitted.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)