coach
Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi.

The meaning "instructor/trainer" is from Oxford University slang (c.

Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /kəʊtʃ/, [kʰəʊ̯tʃ]
  • (America) IPA: /koʊt͡ʃ/, [kʰoʊ̯t͡ʃ]
Noun

coach (plural coaches)

  1. A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.
    Synonyms: carriage
  2. (rail, UK, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.
    Synonyms: carriage
  3. (originally, Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.
    football coach
    spelling coach
    public coach
    horseriding coach
    politics coach
  4. (British, Australia) A long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
  5. (nautical) The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.
    • Error: invalid time (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “May 3rd, 1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC ↗:
      The commanders all came on board and the council sat in the coach.
  6. (chiefly, US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section.
    We couldn't afford the good tickets, so we spent the flight crammed in coach.
  7. (chiefly, US) The lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class.
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coach (coaches, present participle coaching; simple past and past participle coached)

  1. (intransitive, sports) To train.
  2. (transitive) To instruct; to train.
    She has coached many opera stars.
  3. (intransitive) To study under a tutor.
  4. (intransitive) To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
    • 1653, Edward Waterhouse, A humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men:
      Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters
  5. (transitive) To convey in a coach.
    • 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC ↗:
      The needy poet sticks to all he meets,
      Coached, carted, trod upon, now loose, now fast.
      And carried off in some dog's tail at last
Translations Translations Adverb

coach (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly, US) Via the part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; via the economy section.
    John flew coach to Vienna, but first-class back home.



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