coachman

C2 Topic:Animals
US /ˈkoʊt͡ʃmən/ UK /ˈkəʊt͡ʃmən/
noun Freq #22759

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    A man who drives a horse-drawn coach, a male coach driver.

    In about half-an-hour John and Mr. York, who was to be our new coachman, came in to see us. "Now Mr. Manly," he said, after carefully looking at us both, "I can see no fault in these horses, but we all know that horses have their peculiarities as well as men, and that sometimes they need different treatment; I should like to know if there is anything particular in either of these, that you would like to mention.".

  2. 2
    noun

    a man who drives a coach (or carriage)

  3. 3
    noun

    A fish in the genus Heniochus, either Heniochus acuminatus or Heniochus diphreutes.

Thesaurus

Word family
Derived forms coachmanshipundercoachman
Related forms coachwoman

Etymology

From coach + -man.

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