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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.
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EXPANDa person who trains an athlete or a team of athletes: a football coach.
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a private tutor who prepares a student for an examination.
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a person who instructs an actor or singer.
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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.
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Nautical. an after cabin in a sailing ship, located beneath the poop deck, for use especially by the commander of the ship.
10.
a type of inexpensive automobile with a boxlike, usually two-door, body manufactured in the 1920s.
11.
COLLAPSEverb (used with object)
12.
to give instruction or advice to in the capacity of a coach; instruct: She has coached the present tennis champion.
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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) < 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
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 forms
coach·a·ble, adjective
coach·a·bil·i·ty, noun
out·coach, verb (used with object)
o·ver·coach, verb
un·coach·a·ble, adjective
EXPANDSynonyms
6. mentor, preceptor.
6. mentor, preceptor.
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Word Origin & History
coach
1550s, "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.
EXPANDSense 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. Related: Coached; coaching.
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