# coach
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi. According to historians, the coach was named after the small Hungarian town of Kocs, which made a livelihood from cart building and transport between Vienna and Budapest.
The meaning "instructor/trainer" is from Oxford University slang (c. 1830) for a "tutor" who "carries" one through an exam; the athletic sense is from 1861.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /kəʊtʃ/, [kʰəʊ̯tʃ]
* (US) IPA: /koʊt͡ʃ/, [kʰoʊ̯t͡ʃ]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊtʃ

### Noun

coach (plural coaches)
* A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.
    Synonym: carriage
* (rail transport, UK, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.
    Synonym: carriage
* (originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.
    football coach
    spelling coach
    public coach
    horseriding coach
    politics coach
* (British, Australia) A long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
* (nautical) The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.
** 1660 May 13 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “May 3rd, 1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:The commanders all came on board and the council sat in the coach.
* (chiefly US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section.
    We couldn't afford the good tickets, so we spent the flight crammed in coach.
* (chiefly US) The lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class.

#### Derived terms

* accommodation coach
* aircoach
* autocoach
* baby coach
* camping coach
* coach and horses
* coach bolt
* coachbox
* coach box
* coachbuilder
* coachbuilding
* coach-built, coachbuilt
* coach dog
* coachdog
* coach driver
* coacher
* coachfellow
* coachful
* coach gun
* coach horn
* coach horse
* coachhorse
* coach house
* coach inn
* coach lamp
* coachless
* coachlet
* coachlike
* coachline
* coachload
* coachmaker
* coachmaking
* coachman
* coachmark
* coachmaster
* coachmate
* coach-office
* coach roof
* coach screw
* coachsmith
* coachspeak
* coachstand
* coach up
* coachwheel
* coachwhip (Fouquieria splendens)
* coachwoman
* coachwood
* coachwork
* coachwright
* coachyard
* dating coach
* daycoach
* devil's coach-horse
* drive a coach and horses through
* drive a coach and six through
* encoach
* get-back coach
* glass coach
* head coach
* life coach
* lozenge coach
* mailcoach
* motor-coach
* motor coach
* motorcoach
* quiet coach
* roach coach
* rural coach
* slip coach
* slowcoach
* slumbercoach, slumber coach
* stage-coach
* stagecoach
* supercoach
* who's robbing this coach

#### Related terms

* coachee

#### Descendants

* → Czech: kouč
* → Danish: coach
* → Dutch: coach
* → French: coach
* → German: Coach
* → Italian: coach
* → Japanese: コーチ (kōchi)
* → Korean: 코치 (kochi)
* → Malay: koc
* → Polish: coach
* → Spanish: coach
* → Swahili: kocha
* → Swedish: coach

#### Translations

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### Verb

coach (third-person singular simple present coaches, present participle coaching, simple past and past participle coached)
* (intransitive, sports) To train.
* (transitive) To instruct; to train.
    She has coached many opera stars.
* (intransitive) To study under a tutor.
* (intransitive) To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
** 1653, Edward Waterhouse, A humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men:Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters
* (transitive) To convey in a coach.
** 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:The needy poet sticks to all he meets, Coached, carted, trod upon, now loose, now fast. And carried off in some dog's tail at last

#### Derived terms

* coachable
* outcoach
* overcoach
* recoach
* uncoach

#### Descendants

* → Dutch: coachen

#### Translations
### Adverb

coach (not comparable)
* (chiefly US) Via the part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; via the economy section.
    John flew coach to Vienna, but first-class back home.

#### Derived terms

* coachability

#### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “coach”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Cacho, Chaco, chaco

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English coach.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koːtʃ/
* (Belgium) IPA: [koːtʃ]
* (Netherlands) IPA: [koʊ̯tʃ]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: coach

### Noun

coach m (plural coaches or coachen, diminutive coachje n)
* trainer, instructor, tutor, coach
* counselor

#### Derived terms

* bondscoach
* coachen

#### Related terms

* koets

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English coach. Doublet of coche.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kovtʃ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

coach m (plural coachs)
* coach, trainer, instructor

#### Derived terms

* coacher

### Further reading

* “coach”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* cocha

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English coach.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkot͡ʃ/, /ˈkɔt͡ʃ/
* Rhymes: -otʃ, -ɔtʃ

### Noun

coach m (invariable)
* coach (sports instructor)

### References

* ↑ coach in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English coach, from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔwt͡ʂ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔwt͡ʂ
* Syllabification: coach

### Noun

coach m pers
* (sports) coach, trainer (person who trains another)
* (psychology) coach, instructor
    Synonyms: szkoleniowiec, trener

#### Declension
### Noun

coach m inan
* coachwork

#### Related terms

* coachingowy
* coaching

### Further reading

* coach in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English coach.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈko(w)t͡ʃ/ [ˈko(ʊ̯)t͡ʃ], /ˈko(w).t͡ʃi/ [ˈko(ʊ̯).t͡ʃi]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈko(w)t͡ʃ/ [ˈko(ʊ̯)t͡ʃ], /ˈko(w).t͡ʃi/ [ˈko(ʊ̯).t͡ʃi]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈko(w)t͡ʃ/ [ˈko(ʊ̯)t͡ʃ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈko(w)t͡ʃ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈko(w)t͡ʃ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈkowt͡ʃ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈkot͡ʃ/
* Rhymes: -owtʃi, -otʃi, -otʃ

### Noun

coach m or f by sense (plural coaches)
* motivational speaker
* life coach (professional who helps clients to achieve their personal goals)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English coach. Doublet of coche.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkout͡ʃ/ [ˈkou̯t͡ʃ]
* Rhymes: -outʃ

### Noun

coach m (plural coaches)
* (sports) coach

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

### Further reading

* “coach”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “coach”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
* Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English coach.

### Noun

coach c
* coach; a trainer or instructor