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coach

/kəʊtʃ//koʊt͡ʃ/

coach noun: a wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.

Noun

coach (plural coaches)

  1. A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.
    • I have a coach waiting. During intermission, would you consent to accompany me for a cooling ride around the city?1989 February 12, Jennifer Justice, “A Night At The Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 9
    Synonyms:
    carriage
  2. (Australia, UK) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.
    Synonyms:
    carriage
  3. A trainer or instructor.
    • football coach
    • spelling coach
  4. (Australia, UK) A long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
  5. The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.
    • The commanders all came on board and the council sat in the coach.1660 May 12 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “May 3rd, 1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London...
  6. (US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section.
    • We couldn't afford the good tickets, so we spent the flight crammed in coach.
  7. (US) The lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class.

Verb

coach (third-person singular simple present coaches, present participle coaching, simple past and past participle coached)

  1. (intransitive) To train.
  2. (transitive) To instruct; to train.
    • She has coached many opera stars.
  3. (intransitive) To study under a tutor.
  4. (intransitive) To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
    • Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters1653, Edward Waterhouse, A humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men
  5. (transitive) To convey in a coach.
    • The needy poet sticks to all he meets,
      Coached, carted, trod upon, now loose, now fast.
      And carried off in some dog's tail at last1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC

Adverb

coach (not comparable)

  1. (US) Via the part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; via the economy section.
    • John flew coach to Vienna, but first-class back home.

coach meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

coach in Hindi

rail passenger car
रेलगाड़ी relgāṛī, गाड़ी gāṛī
trainer
प्रशिक्षक praśikṣak, ट्रेनर ṭrenar

coach in Tamil

long-distance bus
கோச் kōc

coach in Marathi

coach
यान yān

coach in Urdu

trainer
ٹْرینَر ṭrenar
More languagesFewer languages
coach in Bengali
কোচ, গাড়ী, গৃহশিক্ষক, ক্রীড়াশিক্ষক
coach in Malayalam
പരിശീലകൻ, കോച്ച്
coach in Kannada
ಕಲಿಸು, ಪಳಗಿಸು, ತರಬೇತಿ ಕೊಡು
coach in Punjabi
ਡੱਬਾ ḍabbā, ਖਿਡਾਉਣਾ khiḍāuṇā
coach in Gujarati
કોચ koc
coach in Odia
ପ୍ରଶିକ୍ଷକ, କୋଚ୍
coach in Sanskrit
अध्यापक adhyāpaka
coach in Assamese
দবা doba, প্ৰশিক্ষক proxikhok
coach in Nepali
कोच
coach in Pashto
واګون wāgun
coach in Arabic
عَرَبَة ʕaraba, مُدَرِّب mudarrib, مُدَرِّبَة mudarriba, حافلة السفر ḥāfila al-safar
coach in Malay
koc, gerabak, gerbong, jurulatih
coach in Indonesian
gerbong, pelatih, bus jarak jauh, bus besar
coach in Thai
ตู้รถไฟ dtûu-rót-fai, ครูฝึก kruu-fʉ̀k, โค้ช kóot, ผู้สอน pûu-sɔ̌ɔn
coach in Vietnamese
toa, huấn luyện viên, xe khách

Examples of coach in a sentence

  • He was bidding for the chance to coach his team to victory once again.
  • The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.
  • Our coach has retired, but occasionally he still announces the games.

All 40 example sentences with coach

Synonyms of coach

Forms of coach

Noun
pluralcoaches
Verb
third-person singular presentcoaches
present participlecoaching
past participlecoached
pastcoached

Past tense of coach: coached

Plural of coach: coaches

Origin of coach

Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi. According to historians, the coach was named after the small Hungarian town of Kocs, which made a livelihood from cart building and transport between Vienna and Budapest. The meaning “instructor/trainer” is from Oxford University slang (c. 1830) for a “tutor” who “carries” one through an exam; the athletic sense is from 1861.

Words formed from coach

Phrases with coach

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Words that rhyme with coach

Questions about coach

What does coach mean?
Coach means a wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.
What is coach in Hindi?
Coach in Hindi is रेलगाड़ी (relgāṛī), गाड़ी (gāṛī), प्रशिक्षक (praśikṣak). See Coach meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is coach?
Coach can be a noun, a verb or an adverb.
How do you pronounce coach?
Coach is pronounced /kəʊtʃ/ (UK).
What is the plural of coach?
The plural of coach is coaches.

Words near coach in the dictionary

  1. coacervate
  2. coacervated
  3. coacervates
  4. coacervation
  5. coacervations
  6. coach
  7. coach and four
  8. coach and fours
  9. coach bolt
  10. coach bolts
  11. coach box

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: coach (page history and authors); यान (Marathi) (page history and authors); coach (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); coach (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coach (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਖਿਡਾਉਣਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); coach (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); अध्यापक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); coach (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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