Noun: coach
| Singular | coach |
| Plural | coaches |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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football coach
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spelling coach
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public coach
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horseriding coach
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politics coach
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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: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:]
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We couldn't afford the good tickets, so we spent the flight crammed in coach.
Nouns inflected like coach
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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.
2. 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. See: German Nouns '
Kutsche', Hungarian Nouns '
kocsi'.
Verbs referencing "coach"
Dutch Nouns
coach, French Nouns
coach, Swedish Nouns
coach, Finnish Nouns
koutsi, Swedish Nouns
kusk, Irish Nouns
cóisir, Russian Nouns
коуч, German Nouns
Coach.