curriculum

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cur=ric=u=lum

CIDE DICTIONARY

curriculum, n. [L. See Curricle.].

•  A race course; a place for running.  [1913 Webster]
•  A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

curriculum, n. (pl. curricula)
1 the subjects that are studied or prescribed for study in a school (not part of the school curriculum).
2 any programme of activities.

Derivative

curricular adj.

Etymology

L, = course, race-chariot, f. currere run

THESAURUS

curriculum

academic specialty, area, classical education, core curriculum, course, course of study, discipline, elective, field, general education, general studies, humanities, liberal arts, major, minor, proseminar, quadrivium, refresher course, scientific education, seminar, specialty, study, subdiscipline, subject, technical education, trivium

ROGET THESAURUS

curriculum

Teaching

N teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition, tutorage, tutelage, direction, guidance, opsimathy, qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline, excitation, drill, practice, book exercise, persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda, indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation, advise, explanation, lesson, lecture, sermon, apologue, parable, discourse, prolection, preachment, chalk talk, Chautauqua, exercise, task, curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three R's, initiation, A, B, C, elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education, propaedeutics, moral tuition, gymnastics, calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd, phonics, rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, Montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks, A, B, C, D, E, F, gentleman's C, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student, theme, project, teaching, taught, educational, scholastic, academic, doctrinal, disciplinal, instructive, instructional, didactic, propaedeutic, propaedeutical, the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, sermons in stones and good in everything.