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

Of course, in her Neverland they bleach your teeth so white they glow and Madonna coaches you on your convincing British accent.
‘Peter Pan Live!’ Review: No Amount of Clapping Brings It to Life|Kevin Fallon|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The manager and coaches are part of the team and have their jobs to do.
Tony La Russa Explains How To Make It To The World Series|Dave Pottruck|October 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“You feel like you have to do what [coaches and staff] are asking you to do,” he said.
College Football Fattens Players Up and Then Abandons Them|Evin Demirel|October 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But its coaches and producers are losing an opportunity to really educate the public about the science of weight gain and loss.
‘The Biggest Loser’ Could Be TV’s Most Important Show Ever|Daniela Drake|September 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Stress is the enemy of willpower, so say the latest findings of neuroscientists, psychologists, and life coaches in the field.
Willpower: Our Greatest Strength?||September 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Reading” is used by Coaches in a technical sense; that is, synonymous with “thorough study.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
Here we are eleven miles from the Borough, and at the end of the first stage out of London in the old days of the mail-coaches.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries|Charles G. Harper
Then confound your slow coaches down here; thats all, said the doctor, walking away.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3)|Charles Dickens
The old highway followed the very brink of the Punch Bowl, and was in winter-time extremely dangerous for coaches.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries|Charles G. Harper
Once during a deep snow there was a complete block of coaches on the road at “Seven Thorns.”
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries|Charles G. Harper

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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