1 [C] somebody who trains a person or team in sport:
a basketball / football / tennis coach * Italy's national coach
2 [C] (BrE) a person who gives private lessons to sb, often to prepare them for an exam:
a maths coach
3 [C] (BrE) a comfortable bus for carrying passengers over long distances:
They went to Italy on a coach tour. * Travel is by coach overnight to Berlin. * a coach station (= where coaches start and end their journey) * a coach party (= a group of people travelling together on a coach)
4 [C] (BrE) = CARRIAGE:
a railway coach
5 [C] a large carriage with four wheels, pulled by horses, used in the past for carrying passengers
seealsoSTAGECOACH
6 [U] (AmE) the cheapest seats in a plane:
to fly coach * coach fares / passengers / seats
IDIOMS see DRIVEv.
verb ~ sb (in / for sth)
1 to train sb to play a sport, to do a job better, or to improve a skill:
[VN] Her father coached her for the Olympics. * She has coached hundreds of young singers. * He coaches basketball and soccer. [also VNtoinf]
2 [VN] (especially BrE) to give a student extra teaching in a particular subject especially so that they will pass an exam
3 ~ sb (in / on sth) to give sb special instructions for what they should do or say in a particular situation:
[VN] They believed the witnesses had been coached on what to say. [also VNtoinf]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for coach is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is coach a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, coach is tagged as noun.
Does coach appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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