OF COURSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does of course mean? 

• OF COURSE (adverb)
  The adverb OF COURSE has 1 sense:

1. as might be expected

  Familiarity information: OF COURSE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OF COURSE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As might be expected

Synonyms:

course; naturally; of course

Context example:

naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill

 Context examples 

Of course they may scupper them at once in revenge.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of course this was good news.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"It's for Belle, of course, George always sends her some, but these are altogether ravishing," cried Annie, with a great sniff.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Of course I dropped everything and set out for the North once more.

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

Of course, Saturn will make you work hard for what you achieve.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Of course I did not—I had never heard of him before; but the old lady seemed to regard his existence as a universally understood fact, with which everybody must be acquainted by instinct.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Of course, he cannot be aware of the importance to me.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Now, of course that suggested at once that there must be a communication between the two rooms.

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

Of course, it is as you say.

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