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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."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Coach" Quotes from Famous Books



... strange and terrible recollections of the days when the saints, with the high praises of God in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hands, had bound kings with chains, and nobles with links of iron. Then were again heard voices which had shouted "Privilege" by the coach of Charles the First in the time of his tyranny, and had called for "justice" in Westminister Hall on the day of his trial. It has been the fashion to represent the excitement of this period as the effect of the Popish ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... painting—for which he has no natural capacity, but for which he thinks he has. He is then like those sailors, and meets justly the same fate, who think that because they can steer a boat admirably, they can also drive a coach and four. The love scene in Becket between Rosamund and Henry illustrates my meaning. It was a subject in itself that Tennyson ought to have done well, and would probably have done well in another form of poetry; but, done in a form for which he had no genius, he did it ...
— The Poetry Of Robert Browning • Stopford A. Brooke

... which soda is obtained. A white substance is now left undissolved; it is a compound of muriatic acid and lead, which, when heated, changes its colour, and forms Turner's yellow; a very beautiful colour, much in use among coach-painters. ...
— Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets • Daniel Young

... in festoons round the inside rails of the front seat and body, while about thirty hares dangled by their hind legs, with their long ears flapping to and fro, from the back seat and baggage rack. The wagon looked, I scarce know how, something between an English stage-coach when the merry days of Christmas are at hand, ...
— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)

... the following week Cardo drove to Caer Madoc to meet the mail-coach, which entered the town with many blasts of the horn, and with much flourishing of whip, at five o'clock every evening. In the yard of the Red Dragon he waited for the arrival of his father's guest. At the appointed time the coach came rattling round the corner, and, as it drew ...
— By Berwen Banks • Allen Raine


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