coach

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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.
verb travel or convey by coach.
– derivatives
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.
verb train or teach as a coach.
– origin C18: figuratively from coach1.
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