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coach (kōc̸h)

noun

  1. a large, covered, four-wheeled carriage used in the 16th-19th cent. as a public conveyance, with seats for passengers inside and an open, raised seat in front for the driver; stagecoach
  2. ☆ a railroad passenger car furnishing the lowest-priced seating accommodations
  3. the lowest-priced class of accommodations on some airlines
  4. a bus (sense )
  5. an enclosed automobile, usually a two-door sedan

  6. Etymology: orig., university slang

    a private tutor who prepares a student in a subject or for an examination
  7. an instructor or trainer, as of athletes, actors, or singers
  8. ☆ Baseball a member of the team at bat, stationed near first and near third base to signal and direct the base runners and batters
  9. Sports the person who is in overall charge of a team and the strategy in games

Etymology: Fr coche < Ger kutsche < Hung kocsi (szekér), (carriage of) Kócs, village in Hungary where it was first used

transitive verb

  1. Rare to carry in a coach
  2. to instruct in a subject, or prepare for an examination, by private tutoring
  3. to instruct and train (athletes, actors, etc.)

intransitive verb

  1. to ride in a coach
  2. to act as a coach

coach Synonyms

coach

n.

  1. A carriage

    stagecoach, four-wheeler, chaise, victoria; see carriage 2, vehicle 1.

  2. An instructor

    mentor, drillmaster, physical education instructor; see teacher 1, trainer.

coach Synonyms

coach

v.

train, drill, instruct; see teach 1, 2.

coach Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • qualify: Bungay CC welcomes both boys and girls to training sessions and have qualified coaches to help create better players for the future.
  • rejoin: Early afternoon we rejoin the coach for the homeward journey.

Adjective modifier

  • qualified: We split into 3 groups, each led by a qualified coach.
  • air-conditioned: We will travel between cities in a spacious, private, air-conditioned coach.
  • assistant: Where an assistant coach or helper is only ever conducting their duties under the direct supervision of cleared staff then clearance is not required.
  • experienced: Employing an external coach: With the help of an experienced coach you often agree a contract at your first meeting.
  • vocal: Singing Teachers Database Looking for a singing teacher, vocal coach, music & performance school or voice workshop?
  • phantom: It was of a phantom coach and four horses driven, they say, by ' Old Hunch ' who died in 1647.

Modifies a noun

  • tour: We went on the first available coach tour of the island at a cost of approximately 30 pounds for the two of us.
  • parking: For details about areas to eat lunch, coach parking etc, go to facilities.
  • driver: Cons: Never saw a member of staff except coach driver.
  • operator: Please double check any timetables directly with the coach operators.. .
  • trip: Our Branch also made the coach trip to the Family Records Center in November.
  • journey: The Day starts with a coach journey from Cromer Junior School to Powerleague, Norwich.

Noun used with modifier

  • goalkeeping: Tony Burns, Millwall's goalkeeping coach for the past 14 years, has left the club to join rivals Crystal Palace.
  • soccer: Youth soccer coaches need to bear in mind the physical and mental age of their players when planning their training sessions.
  • seater: On 19th June a 45 seater coach was commissioned to take members of the congregation to view their new bells.
  • luxury: A full day trip by luxury coach from Sussex to Sheringham for a trip on the 5 1/4 mile North Norfolk railroad.
  • head: Head coach Paul Thompson said: " Being a back-up isn't an easy job.
  • tennis: London Sport Tennis coach needed: Hi, I am looking for a tennis coach to teach two o. .
coach Quotes

I have not time to say any more, but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory. MonsieurTallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest.

—Marlborough,John Churchill, 1st Duke of

It is the necessary nature of a political in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change† The best carriage horses are those which can most steadily hold back against the coach as it trundles down the hill.

—Trollope, Anthony

If Imade Cinderella, theaudience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

—Hitchcock, SirAlfred Joseph

Being inpoliticsislikebeing a football coach.Youhaveto be smart enough to know the game and stupid enough to think it is important.

—McCarthy, EugeneJ(oseph)

I throw myself down in my Chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

—Donne,John

Up, and by coach to Sir Ph.Warwickes, the street being full of footballs, it being a great frost.

—Pepys, Samuel

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