coach

[ kohch ]

/ koʊtʃ /

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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.

OTHER WORDS FOR coach

6 mentor, preceptor.

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Origin of coach

First recorded in 1550–60; 1840–50 for sense “tutor”; earlier coche(e), from Middle French coche, from German Kotsche, Kutsche, from 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

OTHER WORDS FROM coach

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

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

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How to use coach in a sentence

In late October, Emily Engel-Natzke was formally offered the position of video coach for the Hershey Bears, a move that, when she accepted, made her the first female coach in the Washington Capitals organization.
Emily Engel-Natzke’s dad was her ‘biggest fan.’ He died of covid-19 before her hockey triumph.|Samantha Pell|November 20, 2020|Washington Post
After the 38-21 throttling of a troubled Michigan, fifth-season head coach Tom Allen began the video news conference by saying, “Wow.”
There is plenty of happiness in college football — if you know where to look|Chuck Culpepper|November 9, 2020|Washington Post
He briefly coached the Jets and Patriots before joining the Seahawks after nine years as USC’s head coach.
Steelers stay unbeaten, Chargers drop another heartbreaker in NFL Week 9|Cindy Boren, Mark Maske, Des Bieler|November 9, 2020|Washington Post
NFL owners will consider a diversity proposal by which a team would be awarded a pair of third-round draft picks if it develops a minority candidate who is hired elsewhere as a head coach or general manager.
NFL considers plan to reward teams that develop minority head coaches, general managers|Mark Maske|November 8, 2020|Washington Post

The Spartans were a combined 3-22 in current coach Brent Brennan’s first two seasons, but improved to 5-7 last year while splitting six one-possession games.
College football winners and losers for Week 10: Florida is fun again and Georgia is done|Patrick Stevens|November 8, 2020|Washington Post

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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