coach

[ kohch ]

/ koʊtʃ /

noun

a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.

a public motorbus.

Also called air coach. a class of airline travel providing less luxurious accommodations than first class at a lower fare.

a person who trains an athlete or a team of athletes: a football coach.

a private tutor who prepares a student for an examination.

a person who instructs an actor or singer.

Baseball. a playing or nonplaying member of the team at bat who is stationed in the box outside first or third base to signal instructions to and advise base runners and batters.

Nautical. an after cabin in a sailing ship, located beneath the poop deck, for use especially by the commander of the ship.

a type of inexpensive automobile with a boxlike, usually two-door, body manufactured in the 1920s.

mobile home.

verb (used with object)

to give instruction or advice to in the capacity of a coach; instruct: She has coached the present tennis champion.

verb (used without object)

to act as a coach.

to go by or in a coach.

adverb

by coach or in coach-class accommodations: We flew coach from Denver to New York.

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Origin of coach

1550–60; 1840–50 for sense “tutor”; earlier coche(e) < Middle French coche < German Kotsche, Kutsche < Hungarian kocsi, short for kocsi szekér cart of Kocs, town on the main road between Vienna and Budapest; senses referring to tutoring, from the conception of the tutor as one who carries the student through examinations

SYNONYMS FOR coach

6 mentor, preceptor.

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OTHER WORDS FROM coach

coach·a·ble, adjectivecoach·a·bil·i·ty, nounout·coach, verb (used with object)o·ver·coach, verb

un·coach·a·ble, adjectiveun·coached, adjectivewell-coached, adjective

Words nearby coach

co-worker, co., coa, coacervate, coacervation, coach, coach bolt, coach box, coach class, coach dog, coach horse

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Example sentences from the Web for coach

With a .700 career winning percentage as a coach in college and the NFL, Harbaugh is a winner.
Is Any College Football Coach Worth $60 Million? Jim Harbaugh Is|Jesse Lawrence|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Michigan supposedly offered 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh a $42 million contract, which would him the highest-paid coach in the NCAA.
Is Any College Football Coach Worth $60 Million? Jim Harbaugh Is|Jesse Lawrence|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Having just crossed the country in coach, I needed instant spiritual repair.
Beer Countries vs. Wine Countries|Clive Irving|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Tip: The narrower upper deck in coach is the better choice because its eight-seat rows cannot be extended.
Flying Coach Is the New Hell: How Airlines Engineer You Out of Room|Clive Irving|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Shattuck retired her pom-poms after two years, but stayed on for six more as a coach.
From Baltimore Ravens Cheerleader to Mrs. Robinson|Brandy Zadrozny|November 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He had a selection on a long box-scrub siding of the ridges, about half a mile back and up from the coach road.
On the Track|Henry Lawson
Quickly she touched a bell, and in the next instant the coach had stopped and the footman was at the open door.
Belford's Magazine, Vol II, No. 10, March 1889|Various
The horn sounded a few cheerful notes, and the coach was gone.
Oliver Twist, Vol. III (of 3)|Charles Dickens
That nobleman was driving over Dumoor Heath in his coach well attended by armed servants.
Cornish Characters|S. Baring-Gould
But I never rode; I had no horses, and our coach was out of order, and we went and came in a hired one.
The Journal to Stella|Jonathan Swift

British Dictionary definitions for coach

coach

/ (kəʊtʃ) /

noun

a vehicle for several passengers, used for transport over long distances, sightseeing, etc

a large four-wheeled enclosed carriage, usually horse-drawn

a railway carriage carrying passengers

a trainer or instructora drama coach

a tutor who prepares students for examinations

verb

to give tuition or instruction to (a pupil)

(tr) to transport in a bus or coach

Derived forms of coach

coacher, noun

Word Origin for coach

C16: from French coche, from Hungarian kocsi szekér wagon of Kocs, village in Hungary where coaches were first made; in the sense: to teach, probably from the idea that the instructor carried his pupils

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