curriculum
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curriculum
- /kəˈɹɪk.jʊ.ləm/ UK
- /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/ US
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin curriculum (“course”), derived from currō (“run, move quickly”). Doublet of curricle.
noun curricula · curriculums
- The set of courses, coursework, and content offered at a school or university. Perhaps someday my old US history teacher, and men like him, will use The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression in their courses to balance the many explicitly pro–New Deal and prointerventionist texts and presentations that dominate public-school curricula today.
- The set of standards schools are required to teach all students. Drawing on texts recommended in curricula and controlling for two countries with benchmarked curricula improves the external representativeness of the corpus.
- A racecourse; a place for running.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: syllabus, program, curricular, pedagogic, pedagogical, textbook, educational, studies, schooling, agenda, study, class, training, instructional, studio, education
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noun set of courses and coursework
| Español | currículo |
|---|---|
| Português | currículo |
| Français | cursus |
| Deutsch | Lehrplan, Studienplan, Bildungsplan, Curriculum, Lehrzielvorgabe |
| Ελληνικά | πρόγραμμα σπουδών prógramma spoudón, διδακτέα ύλη didaktéa ýli |
| Русский | курс обучения kurs obučenija, уче́бный план učébnyj plan |
| Tiếng Việt | chương trình giảng dạy |
| العربية | مَنْهَج manhaj, مَنْهَج دِرَاسِيّ manhaj dirāsiyy |
Talk about this word "curriculum." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/curriculum. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. curriculum. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/curriculum "curriculum." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/curriculum.Cite this
@misc{curriculum_2026,
title = {curriculum},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/curriculum},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
