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]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəʊtʃ/, [kʰəʊ̯tʃ]
• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊt͡ʃ/, [kʰoʊ̯t͡ʃ]

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• Rhymes: -əʊtʃ

coach (plural coaches)

1. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

   Synonym: carriage

2. (rail transport, UK, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.

   Synonym: carriage

3. (originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.
4. (Britain, Australia) A 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.
   • 1660 May 13 (date written; Gregorian calendar)​, Samuel Pepys; Mynors Bright, transcriber, “May 3rd, 1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:

     The commanders all 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.

   We couldn't afford the good tickets, so we spent the flight crammed in coach.

7. (chiefly US) The lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class.

• 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).
   • 1653, Edward Waterhouse, A humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men:

     Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters

5. (transitive) To convey in a coach.
   • 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:

     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

coach (not comparable)

1. (chiefly US) Via 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.

• coachability

• Cacho, Chaco, chaco

Borrowed from English coach.

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

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• Hyphenation: coach

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

1. trainer, instructor, tutor, coach
2. counselor

• bondscoach
• coachen

• koets

Borrowed from English coach. Doublet of coche.

• IPA^(key): /kotʃ/

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coach m (plural coachs)

1. coach, trainer, instructor

• coacher

• “coach”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cocha

Unadapted borrowing from English coach.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkot͡ʃ/, /ˈkɔt͡ʃ/[1]
• Rhymes: -otʃ, -ɔtʃ

coach m (invariable)

1. coach (sports instructor)

Unadapted borrowing from English coach, from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi.

• IPA^(key): /kɔwt͡ʂ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔwt͡ʂ
• Syllabification: coach

coach m pers

1. (sports) coach, trainer (person who trains another)
2. (psychology) coach, instructor

   Synonyms: szkoleniowiec, trener

coach m inan

1. coachwork

• coach in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• coach in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English coach.

coach m or f (plural coaches)

1. motivational speaker
2. life coach (professional who helps clients to achieve their personal goals)

Unadapted borrowing from English coach. Doublet of coche.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkot͡ʃ/ [ˈkot͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -otʃ

coach m (plural coaches)

1. (sports) coach

• “coach”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from English coach.

coach c

1. coach; a trainer or instructor