coach

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəʊtʃ/, [kʰəʊ̯tʃ]
• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊtʃ/, [kʰoʊ̯tʃ]

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• Rhymes: -əʊtʃ

coach (plural coaches)

A "bus" coach

1. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
2. (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.
3. (originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.
4. (Britain, Australia) A single-decked long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
5. (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.

6. (chiefly US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section.

   John flew coach to Vienna, but first-class back home.

• (wheeled vehicle drawn by horse power): carriage
• (passenger car): carriage

• coachee

coach (third-person singular simple present coaches, present participle coaching, simple past and past participle coached)

1. (intransitive, sports) To train.
2. (transitive) To instruct; to train.

   She has coached many opera stars.

3. (intransitive) To study under a tutor.
4. (intransitive) To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
   • E. Waterhouse

     Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters

5. (transitive) To convey in a coach.

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• coachability

• Cacho, Chaco, chaco

Borrowed from English coach.

• IPA^(key): /koːtʃ/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): [koːtʃ]
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): [koʊ̯tʃ]

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coach m (plural coaches or coachen, diminutive coachje n)

1. trainer, instructor
2. counselor

Borrowed from English coach.

• IPA^(key): /kotʃ/

coach m (plural coachs)

1. coach, trainer, instructor

• coacher

• “coach” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• cocha

Borrowed from English coach.

coach m (invariable)

1. coach (sports instructor)

Borrowed from English coach. Doublet of coche.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkot͡ʃ/

coach m (plural coaches)

1. (sports) coach

Borrowed from English coach.

coach c

1. coach; a trainer or instructor