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coach

[kohch]
–noun
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.
–verb (used with object)
12. to give instruction or advice to in the capacity of a coach; instruct: She has coached the present tennis champion.
–verb (used without object)
13. to act as a coach.
14. to go by or in a coach.
–adverb
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


coach⋅a⋅ble, adjective
coach⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun


6. mentor, preceptor.
coach   (kōch)   
n.  
    1. A motorbus.
    2. A railroad passenger car.
    3. A closed automobile, usually with two doors.
    4. A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage with an elevated exterior seat for the driver; a stagecoach.
    5. A person who gives instruction, as in singing or acting.
    6. A private tutor employed to prepare a student for an examination.
  1. An economical class of passenger accommodations on a commercial airplane or a train.
  2. Sports A person who trains or directs athletes or athletic teams.
    1. A person who gives instruction, as in singing or acting.
    2. A private tutor employed to prepare a student for an examination.
tr. & intr.v.   coached, coach·ing, coach·es
  1. To train or tutor or to act as a trainer or tutor.
  2. To transport by or ride in a coach.

[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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