Transporta large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed: [countable]The coach pulled up and President Lincoln got aboard.[uncountable* by/on + ~]They traveled by coach to Fort Courage.
Transporta bus; public motorbus: [countable]Take the airport coach to the center of the city.[uncountable* by/on + ~]We traveled by coach to the center of the city.
Transporta large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
Transporta public motorbus.
Rail TransportSee day coach.
TransportAlso called air coach. a class of airline travel providing less luxurious accommodations than first class at a lower fare.
a person who trains an athlete or a team of athletes:a football coach.
a private tutor who prepares a student for an examination.
a person who instructs an actor or singer.
Sport[Baseball.]a playing or nonplaying member of the team at bat who is stationed in the box outside first or third base to signal instructions to and advise base runners and batters.
Nautical, Naval Termsan after cabin in a sailing ship, located beneath the poop deck, for use esp. by the commander of the ship.
Automotivea type of inexpensive automobile with a boxlike, usually two-door, body manufactured in the 1920s.
TransportSee mobile home.
v.t.
to give instruction or advice to in the capacity of a coach; instruct:She has coached the present tennis champion.
v.i.
to act as a coach.
Transportto go by or in a coach.
adv.
Transportby coach or in coach-class accommodations:We flew coach from Denver to New York.
Hungarian kocsi, short for kocsi szekér cart of Kocs, town on the main road between Vienna and Budapest; senses referring to tutoring, from the conception of the tutor as one who carries the student through examinations
German Kotsche, Kutsche
Middle French coche
1550–60; 1840–50 for sense "tutor''; earlier coche(e)
coach′a•ble, adj. coach′a•bil′i•ty, n.
6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged mentor, preceptor.
a vehicle for several passengers, used for transport over long distances, sightseeing, etc
a large four-wheeled enclosed carriage, usually horse-drawn
a railway carriage carrying passengers
a trainer or instructor: a drama coach
a tutor who prepares students for examinations
to give tuition or instruction to (a pupil)
(transitive)to transport in a bus or coach
Etymology: 16th Century: from French coche, from Hungarian kocsi szekér wagon of Kocs, village in Hungary where coaches were first made; in the sense: to teach, probably from the idea that the instructor carried his pupilsˈcoacher
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