coach
Part of speech: noun
verb
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
rail-transport
railways
sports
transport
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.
Inflected forms:
form: coaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coaches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coached
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.
pos: noun
examples: I have a coach waiting. During intermission, would you consent to accompany me for a cooling ride around the city?
gloss: A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
gloss: A trainer or instructor.
pos: noun
examples: football coach
spelling coach
public coach
horseriding coach
politics coach
gloss: A long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
gloss: The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.
pos: noun
examples: The commanders all came on board and the council sat in the coach.
gloss: The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: We couldn't afford the good tickets, so we spent the flight crammed in coach.
gloss: The lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: To train.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To instruct; to train.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She has coached many opera stars.
gloss: To study under a tutor.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters
gloss: To convey in a coach.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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
gloss: Via the part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; via the economy section.
pos: adv
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: John flew coach to Vienna, but first-class back home.
Related words: coachee
Derived words: accommodation coach
aircoach
autocoach
baby coach
camping coach
coach and four
coach and horses
coach bolt
coach box
coachbox
coachbuilder
coachbuilding
coach-built
coachbuilt
coach dog
coachdog
coach driver
coacher
coachfellow
coachful
coach gun
coachhood
coach horn
coachhorse
coach horse
coach house
coach inn
coach killer
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
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
motorcoach
motor-coach
motor coach
quiet coach
roach coach
rural coach
slip coach
slowcoach
slumbercoach
slumber coach
stage-coach
stagecoach
supercoach
who's robbing this coach
coachable
outcoach
overcoach
recoach
uncoach
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