coach

[kohch]

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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.

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

Related formscoach·a·ble, adjectivecoach·a·bil·i·ty, nounout·coach, verb (used with object)o·ver·coach, verbun·coach·a·ble, adjectiveun·coached, adjectivewell-coached, adjective

Synonyms for coach

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6. mentor, preceptor.

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Related Words for coaching

tutor, teach, train, hone, educate, prepare, school, drill, ready, cram

Examples from the Web for coaching

Contemporary Examples of coaching

Mitchell said the cameras give administrators the ability to observe teachers in action and offer them tips and coaching.
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ProPublica
October 15, 2014
They were also, according to NHL coaching great Scotty Bowman, the greatest lineup in the history of hockey.
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Marlow Stern
October 9, 2014
It'll only buzz during "coaching" sessions that users voluntarily try out to help them build a habit of good posture.
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Gregory Ferenstein
August 26, 2014
Richardson found other coaching jobs but never in the NBA, he was been a career minor league head coach.
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Evan Weiner
June 3, 2014
Was Mia “coaching” her daughter off-camera, as suggested by the investigators?
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Robert B. Weide
January 27, 2014

Historical Examples of coaching

Hal did not need any coaching in the manners or ways of a bushman.
Australia Revenged
Boomerang
When he saw me last I was coaching Harvard students with more money than brains.
An American Suffragette
Isaac N. Stevens
"He won't run off the bridge," cried Cooper, on the coaching line.
Rival Pitchers of Oakdale
Morgan Scott
"That's playing the game, all right," cried Nelson from the coaching line.
Rival Pitchers of Oakdale
Morgan Scott
Well, say, didn't you realize what you were doing while you were coaching that fellow?
Rival Pitchers of Oakdale
Morgan Scott

British Dictionary definitions for coaching

coach

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 Formscoacher, 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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Word Origin and History for coaching

coach

1550s, "large kind of carriage," from Middle French coche (16c.), from German kotsche, from Hungarian kocsi (szekér) "(carriage) of Kocs," village where it was first made. In Hungary, the thing and the name for it date from 15c., and forms are found in most European languages (e.g. Spanish and Portuguese coche, Italian cocchino, Dutch koets). Applied to railway cars 1866, American English. Sense of "economy or tourist class" is from 1949. Meaning "instructor/trainer" is c.1830 Oxford University slang for a tutor who "carries" a student through an exam; athletic sense is 1861.

coach

1610s, "to convey in a coach," from coach (n.). Meaning "to prepare (someone) for an exam" is from 1849. Related: Coached; coaching.