coach
coach
/kəʊtʃ/
1 countable 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
coach of/with/for somebody/something 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.
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
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Collocations
adjective
2 countable a person who gives private lessons to somebody, often to prepare them for an exam a maths coach
3 countable (also life coach) 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 countable (British English) a comfortable bus for carrying passengers over long distances to take/get a coach
by coach Travel is by coach overnight to Berlin.
on a coach Four passengers on the coach were seriously injured in the crash.
a coach tour/journey/trip
coach to/for… She was seen boarding a coach to Southampton.
coach from… 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)
They are planning to tour the United States by coach.
They travelled by coach from London to Berlin.
Collocations
adjective
verb + coach
coach + noun
preposition
by coach
in a/the coach
on a/the coach
5 countable (also carriage (both British English), North American English car) a separate section of a train for carrying passengers a railway coach
Our seats are in Coach D.
When the train finally came into the platform it only had two coaches.
6 countable a large closed vehicle with four wheels, pulled by horses, used in the past for carrying passengers This is the old coach road.
a gateway wide enough for a coach and four (= pulled by four horses) to drive through
Collocations
adjective
verb + coach
coach + verb
coach + noun
phrases
a coach and horses
7 uncountable (North American English) the cheapest seats in a plane to fly coach
coach fares/passengers/seats
Idioms
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.
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