Coach Team Kəʊtʃ Person Passengers Extra Examples Carrying

• the head/assistant coach
• a basketball/football coach
• the team coach
• the england coach

coach

1. a person who trains a person or team in sport
• the head/assistant coach
• a basketball/football coach
• the team coach
• the England coach
• Italy’s national coach
• Coach Bob Shapiro
• the Giants coach Tom Coughlin
• the coach of the New York Knicks
• a coach with the Chicago Cubs
• a coach for the US Olympic team
• He is a former college football coach.

Extra Examples

• a top basketball coach
• The Giants coach had this to say last night:…
• The national athletics coach was interviewed after the event.
• Who's the team coach?
• See you tomorrow, Coach.
• a pitching coach
2. a person who gives private lessons to somebody, often to prepare them for an exam
• a maths coach
3. a person who is employed by somebody to give them advice about how to achieve the things they want in their life and work
4. a comfortable bus for carrying passengers over long distances
• to take/get a coach
• Travel is by coach overnight to Berlin.
• Four passengers on the coach were seriously injured in the crash.
• a coach tour/journey/trip
• She was seen boarding a coach to Southampton.
• I got off the coach from London and walked home.
• They went to Italy on a coach tour.
• a coach driver/passenger/operator
• a coach station (= where coaches start and end their journey)
• a coach party (= a group of people travelling together on a coach)

Extra Examples

• They are planning to tour the United States by coach.
• They travelled by coach from London to Berlin.
5. a separate section of a train for carrying passengers
• a railway coach

Extra Examples

• Our seats are in Coach D.
• When the train finally came into the platform it only had two coaches.
6. a large closed vehicle with four wheels, pulled by horses, used in the past for carrying passengers
• SEE ALSO stagecoach
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/stagecoach
• This is the old coach road.
• a gateway wide enough for a coach and four (= pulled by four horses) to drive through
7. the cheapest seats in a plane
• to fly coach
• coach fares/passengers/seats
8. to cause something to fail, for example a plan

Word Origin

• noun senses 3 to 7 mid 16th cent. (in sense (6)): from French coche, from Hungarian kocsi (szekér) ‘(wagon) from Kocs’, a town in Hungary. noun senses 1 to 3 early 18th cent. (as a verb): figuratively from coach referring to a vehicle.