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

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

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

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.

• coachee

• French: coche
• German: Kutsche
• Italian: carrozza, vettura, diligenza, cocchio
• Portuguese: coche
• Russian: пово́зка
• Spanish: coche

• French: voiture
• German: Wagen
• Italian: carrozza ferroviaria, vettura
• Portuguese: carruagem
• Russian: ваго́н
• Spanish: vagón

• French: entraineur, entraineuse
• German: Trainer, Trainerin, Coach, Coachin
• Italian: allenatore, allenatrice, istruttore, istruttrice, coach
• Portuguese: treinador, treinadora, técnico, técnica, coach
• Russian: тре́нер
• Spanish: entrenador, entrenadora

• French: autocar
• German: Reisebus, Überlandbus, Bus
• Italian: corriera, pullman
• Portuguese: carreira, autocarro, ônibus, autopullman, autocarro de turismo, ônibus rodoviario
• Russian: авто́бус
• Spanish: autocar

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

• French: entraîner, entrainer, coacher
• German: trainieren
• Italian: allenare, addestrare
• Portuguese: treinar
• Spanish: entrenar

• French: instruire
• German: ausbilden

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.