coach
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
coach1
▶noun
- 1 Brit. a comfortably equipped single-decker bus used for longer journeys.
- 2 a railway carriage.
- 3 (also coach class) N. Amer. economy-class seating in an aircraft or train.
- 4 a closed horse-drawn carriage.
– derivatives
coachload noun.
coachload noun.
– origin C16: from Fr. coche, from Hungarian kocsi (szekér) ‘(wagon) from Kocs’, a town in Hungary.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
coach2
▶noun
- 1 an instructor or trainer in sport.
- 2 a tutor who gives private or specialized teaching.
- 3 Austral. another term for coacher.
'coach' also found in these Oxford entries:
cad
- call
- coach bolt
- coach-built
- coach house
- devil's coach-horse
- diligence
- life coach
- park
- porte cochère
- post horn
- postilion
- répétiteur
- slip carriage
- technical area
- wagon-lit

