coach

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who trains people in a sport or skill.

   The football coach praised the team after the match.

2. 2
   verb

   To train or teach someone, especially in a sport or skill.

   She coached the swimming team for ten years.

3. 3
   noun

   A comfortable bus used for long journeys.

   We took a coach from London to Edinburgh.

4. 4
   noun

   The cheaper standard section of a plane or train.

   We couldn't afford business class, so we flew coach.

Common collocations

• baseball coach Noun + noun

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.

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