coach
See also: 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.[1] The term with this meaning is still used by the reality talent show franchise The Voice to dub the group of panelists who select their team of artists and then guide them through a series or season, instead of using the traditional term judges.
Pronunciation
Noun
coach (plural coaches)
A 'bus' coach.
- A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
- (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.
- (originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.
- (Britain, Australia) A single decked 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.
- Samuel Pepys
- The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach.
- Samuel Pepys
- (chiefly US) That part of a commercial passenger airplane reserved for those paying the lower standard fares. The economy section. Sometimes also used for second class on trains.
- John flew coach to Vienna, but first-class back home.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun coach
- coachable
- coach and horses
- coachbuilder
- coach dog
- coach driver
- coacher
- coach horse
- coach lamp
- coachman
- coachmaster
- coach roof
- coachwork
- head coach
- life coach
- roach coach
- slip coach
- stagecoach
Translations
wheeled vehicle drawn by horse power
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rail passenger car
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trainer
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long distance bus
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Verb
coach (third-person singular simple present coaches, present participle coaching, simple past and past participle coached)
- (sports) To train.
- (transitive) To instruct; to train.
- She has coached many opera stars.
- (intransitive) To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
- E. Waterhouse
- Coaching it to all quarters.
- E. Waterhouse
- (transitive) To convey in a coach.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Alexander Pope to this entry?)
Derived terms
Translations
sports: train
References
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koːtʃ/
- (Belgium) IPA(key): [koːtʃ]
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): [koʊ̯tʃ]
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Audio (file)
Noun
coach m (plural coaches or coachen, diminutive coachje n)
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kotʃ/
Noun
coach m (plural coachs)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “coach” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Noun
coach m (invariable)
- coach (sports instructor)
Spanish
Etymology
Noun
coach m (plural coaches)
- (sports) coach
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
coach c
- coach; a trainer or instructor
Declension
| Declension of coach | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | coach | coachen | coacher | coacherna |
| Genitive | coachs | coachens | coachers | coachernas |
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