# coach

Pronunciation: say "KOHCH" US /koʊt͡ʃ/, UK /kəʊtʃ/

## Noun

1. A person who trains or instructs others, especially in a sport, skill, or area of personal development.
   - Simple: A person who trains people in a sport or teaches them a skill.
   - _The team's new coach focused on defense during the preseason._
   - _Some executive coaches charge several hundred dollars an hour._
3. The cheapest standard class of travel on a plane or train, or the section where those passengers sit; economy. *(US)*
   - Simple: The cheapest seats on a plane or train.
   - _The seats in coach felt cramped on the twelve-hour flight._
   - _She walked back through coach looking for an empty row on the train._
4. A bus designed for long-distance travel, or one privately hired for a group. *(Australia, British)*
   - Simple: A bus used for long trips or hired by a group.
   - _The coach to Edinburgh leaves Victoria Station at half past nine._
   - _Football fans filled three coaches for the away match._
5. A wheeled carriage, usually pulled by horses, for carrying passengers.
   - Simple: A large wheeled vehicle pulled by horses, used in the past to carry people.
   - _The coach rattled over the cobblestones as it left the courtyard._
   - _Wealthy families kept a private coach and a stable of horses._
6. A railway passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or forming part of a multiple unit. *(Australia, UK)*
   - Simple: One of the cars of a train where passengers sit.
   - _Passengers in the front coach felt the jolt first._
   - _The 8:15 to Leeds runs with eight coaches today._

## Verb

2. To train or instruct a person or team, especially in a sport or skill, or to work as a coach.
   - Simple: To teach and train a person or team, especially in a sport.
   - _He coached the debate team to a state championship._
   - _A senior partner agreed to coach the new hires through their first cases._

## Adverb

7. Via the economy section of a commercial airplane or train, where passengers pay the lower standard fares. *(US)*
   - Simple: In the cheapest seats of an airplane or train.
   - _The whole band traveled coach to keep tour costs down._
   - _He flies coach even though his company would pay for business class._

## Other meanings

- (verb) To travel in a coach, or to carry people in one.
- (verb) To study under a tutor, especially in preparation for an examination.
- (noun) The forward cabin area beneath a sailing ship's poop deck or quarterdeck.

## Origin

Hungarian kocsi passed into German as Kutsche and then into Middle French as coche, from which English borrowed it. Historians trace the name to Kocs, a small Hungarian town that lived by building carts and providing transport between Vienna and Budapest. Around 1830, Oxford University slang used the word for a tutor who "carries" a student through an exam, which gave the sense of an instructor or trainer, and the sports sense appeared in 1861.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/coach (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).