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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
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.
6. mentor, preceptor.
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| coach (kōch) n.
[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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