coach
noun
- person involved in directing, instructing and training sportspeople
- type of bus for conveying passengers on excursions and on longer-distance intercity coach services
- four wheeled carriage
- upper part of a vehicle
verb
- provide training to
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kəʊtʃ/ / [kʰəʊ̯tʃ] / /koʊt͡ʃ/
adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi. According to historians, the coach was named after the small Hungarian town of Kocs, which made a livelihood from cart building and transport between Vienna and Budapest. The meaning “instructor/trainer” is from Oxford University slang (c. 1830) for a “tutor” who “carries” one through an exam; the athletic sense is from 1861.
- 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.”
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi. According to historians, the coach was named after the small Hungarian town of Kocs, which made a livelihood from cart building and transport between Vienna and Budapest. The meaning “instructor/trainer” is from Oxford University slang (c. 1830) for a “tutor” who “carries” one through an exam; the athletic sense is from 1861.
- A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.
“I have a coach waiting. During intermission, would you consent to accompany me for a cooling ride around the city?”
- A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.
- A trainer or instructor.
“football coach”
“spelling coach”
- A long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
- The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.
“The commanders all came on board and the council sat in the coach.”
- 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.”
- The lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class.
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi. According to historians, the coach was named after the small Hungarian town of Kocs, which made a livelihood from cart building and transport between Vienna and Budapest. The meaning “instructor/trainer” is from Oxford University slang (c. 1830) for a “tutor” who “carries” one through an exam; the athletic sense is from 1861.
- To train.
- To instruct; to train.
“She has coached many opera stars.”
- To study under a tutor.
- To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
“Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters”
- To convey in a coach.
“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”