/kəʊtʃ/, [kʰəʊ̯tʃ], /koʊt͡ʃ/
OriginBorrowed 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.
- A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.
“I have a coach waiting. During intermission, would you consent to accompany me for a cooling ride around the city?”
- Australia, UKA passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.
- A trainer or instructor.
“football coach”
“spelling coach”
“public coach”
- Australia, BritishA long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
- The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.
“The commanders all came on board and the council sat in the coach.”
- USThe 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.”
- USThe lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class.
- intransitiveTo train.
- transitiveTo instruct; to train.
“She has coached many opera stars.”
- intransitiveTo study under a tutor.
- intransitiveTo travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
“Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters”
- transitiveTo convey in a coach.
“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”
- US, not-comparableVia 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.”
Formscoaches(plural) · coaches(present, singular, third-person) · coaching(participle, present) · coached(participle, past) · coached(past)