Coach National Italy Tour Person Noun Bre Kəʊtʃ

• a basketball/football/tennis, etc. coach
• italy’s national coach
• a maths coach
• they went to italy on a coach tour.

coach

1. a person who trains a person or team in sport
• a basketball/football/tennis, etc. coach
• Italy’s national coach
2. a person who gives private lessons to somebody, often to prepare them for an exam
• a maths coach
• = life coach
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/life-coach
3. a comfortable bus for carrying passengers over long distances
• They went to Italy on a coach tour.
• Travel is by coach overnight to Berlin.
• a coach station (= where coaches start and end their journey)
• a coach party (= a group of people travelling together on a coach)
• = carriage
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/carriage
• a railway coach
4. 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
5. the cheapest seats in a plane
• to fly coach
• coach fares/passengers/seats
6. to spoil something, for example a plan

Extra Examples

• They are planning to tour the United States by coach.
• This is the old coach road.
• a gateway wide enough for a coach and four to drive through
• a top basketball coach
• Coach Bob Shapiro
• Our seats are in Coach D.
• See you tomorrow, Coach.
• The Giants coach had this to say last night:…
• The national athletics coach was interviewed after the event.
• They travelled by coach from London to Berlin.
• They went to Italy on a coach tour.
• When the train finally came into the platform it only had two coaches.
• Who’s the team coach?
• a football/basketball/tennis coach

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.