MATTER OF COURSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does matter of course mean? 

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

1. an inevitable ending

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATTER OF COURSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inevitable ending

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

foregone conclusion; matter of course

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

conclusion; ending; finish (event whose occurrence ends something)

 Context examples 

You talk of it as a mere matter of course.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Also, and quite as a matter of course, as though in his life he had already made a thousand toilets, he proceeded to lick away the dry clay that soiled him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

What Miss Lavinia did, her sister did as a matter of course.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs Clay was very pleasant, and very smiling, but her courtesies and smiles were more a matter of course.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The cheer followed—that was a matter of course; but it rang out so full and hearty that I confess I could hardly believe these same men were plotting for our blood.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Quite naturally, as a matter of course, he swung in along-side the dark- eyed one and walked with her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This use of our given names had come about quite as a matter of course, and was as unpremeditated as it was natural.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Whenever she had thought of the minutiae of the evening, it had been as a matter of course that Edmund would begin with Miss Crawford; and the impression was so strong, that though her uncle spoke the contrary, she could not help an exclamation of surprise, a hint of her unfitness, an entreaty even to be excused.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The tent, illumined by a candle, glowed warmly in the midst of the white plain; and when he, as a matter of course, entered it, both Perrault and François bombarded him with curses and cooking utensils, till he recovered from his consternation and fled ignominiously into the outer cold.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

As Traddles seemed to expect that I should assent to this as a matter of course, I nodded; and he went on, with the same sprightly patience—I can find no better expression—as before.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)