coach
Meanings
noun
- A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.
- A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.
- A trainer or instructor.
- A 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 part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section.
- The lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class.
verb
- To train.
- To instruct; to train.
- To study under a tutor.
- To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
- To convey in a coach.
adv
- Via the part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; via the economy section.
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Etymology
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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