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Coach   /koʊtʃ/   Listen
noun
Coach  n.  
1.
A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver. Note: Coaches have a variety of forms, and differ in respect to the number of persons they can carry. Mail coaches and tallyho coaches often have three or more seats inside, each for two or three persons, and seats outside, sometimes for twelve or more.
2.
A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination. (Colloq.) "Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester coach."
3.
(Naut.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain. (Written also couch) (Obs.) "The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach."
4.
(Railroad) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.
5.
One who coaches; specif. (sports), A trainer; one who assists in training individual athletes or the members of a sports team, or who performs other ancillary functions in sports; as, a third base coach.



verb
Coach  v. t.  (past & past part. coached; pres. part. coaching)  
1.
To convey in a coach.
2.
To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. (Colloq.) "I coached him before he got his scholarship."



Coach  v. i.  To drive or to ride in a coach; sometimes used with it. (Colloq.) "Coaching it to all quarters."






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"Coach" Quotes from Famous Books



... saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... them in the lesson they have received out of his house; apart from that, he lodges and feeds them, his office being reduced to this. He is nothing beyond a watched and serviceable auxiliary, a subaltern, a University tutor and "coach," a sort of unpaid, or rather paying, schoolmaster ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 6 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 2 (of 2) • Hippolyte A. Taine

... in being angry, no opportunity even of showing one's charming resignation. Dreadfully bad this for the nervous and bilious, for all the real use and benefit of travelling is done away; all too easy for my taste; one might as well be a doll, or a dolt, or a parcel in the coach." ...
— Helen • Maria Edgeworth

... trouble I have had with that foolish old woman shall not go for nothing,' cried Gangana. 'Go at once to my stables, and fetch out the strongest and swiftest griffins you can find in the stalls, and harness them to the yellow coach. Drive this, with all the speed you may, to the Isle of Bambini, and carry off the six children of Petaldo that are still there. I will see to Petaldo and Gillette myself. When I have got them all safe here I will change the parents ...
— The Olive Fairy Book • Various

... away. She would tell her aunt when she got home again that she should like the change of going to Snowfield for a week or ten days. And then, when she got to Stoniton, where nobody knew her, she would ask for the coach that would take her on the way to Windsor. Arthur was at Windsor, and ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot


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