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coach 
[kohch] Pronunciation Key
—Related forms
[kohch] Pronunciation Key –noun
–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
–adverb
| 1. | a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed. |
| 2. | a public motorbus. |
| 3. | Railroads. day coach. |
| 4. | Also called air coach. a class of airline travel providing less luxurious accommodations than first class at a lower fare. |
| 5. | a person who trains an athlete or a team of athletes: a football coach. |
| 6. | a private tutor who prepares a student for an examination. |
| 7. | a person who instructs an actor or singer. |
| 8. | 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. |
| 9. | Nautical. an after cabin in a sailing ship, located beneath the poop deck, for use esp. by the commander of the ship. |
| 10. | a type of inexpensive automobile with a boxlike, usually two-door, body manufactured in the 1920s. |
| 11. | mobile home. |
| 12. | to give instruction or advice to in the capacity of a coach; instruct: She has coached the present tennis champion. |
| 13. | to act as a coach. |
| 14. | to go by or in a coach. |
| 15. | by coach or in coach-class accommodations: We flew coach from Denver to New York. |
[Origin: 1550–60; 1840–50 for sense “tutor”; earlier coche(e) < MF coche < G 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 forms
coach·a·ble, adjective
coach·a·bil·i·ty, noun
—Synonyms 6. mentor, preceptor.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| coach
(kōch) Pronunciation Key
n.
tr. & intr.v. coached, coach·ing, coach·es
[French coche, from obsolete German Kotsche, from Hungarian kocsi, after Kocs, a town of northwest Hungary (where such carriages were first made).] coach'a·ble adj., coach'er n. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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coach
1556, "large kind of carriage," from M.Fr. coche, from Ger. kotsche, from Hung. 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. Applied to railway cars 1866, Amer.Eng. 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| coach | |
noun | |
| 1. | (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team |
| 2. | a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.) |
| 3. | a railcar where passengers ride [syn: passenger car] |
| 4. | a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver |
| 5. | a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; "he always rode the bus to work" |
verb | |
| 1. | teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports; "He is training our Olympic team"; "She is coaching the crew" |
| 2. | drive a coach |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Coach
Coach\ (?; 224), n. [F. coche, fr. It. cocchio, dim. of cocca little boat, fr. L. concha mussel, mussel shell, Gr. ?, akin to Skr. [,c]ankha. Cf. Conch, Cockboat, Cockle.]1. A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver. Note: Coaches have a variety of forms, and differ in respect to the number of persons they can carry. Mail coaches and tallyho coaches often have three or more seats inside, each for two or three persons, and seats outside, sometimes for twelve or more. 2. A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race. [Colloq.] Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester coach. --G. Eliot. 3. (Naut.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain. [Written also couch.] [Obs.] The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach. --Pepys. 4. (Railroad) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.
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Coach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coached; p. pr. & vb. n. Coaching.]1. To convey in a coach. --Pope. 2. To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. [Colloq.] I coached him before he got his scholarship. --G. Eliot.
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Coach
Coach\, v. i. To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with it. [Colloq.] "Coaching it to all quarters." --E. Waterhouse.
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