coach

plural coaches

1. A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.

   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

   Synonyms: carriage

2. AustraliaUKrail transportA passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.

   Synonyms: carriage

3. A trainer or instructor.

   public coach

   4 more examples

   football coach

   spelling coach

   horseriding coach

   politics coach

4. AustraliaUKA long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
5. nauticalThe forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.

   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

6. USThe part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section.

   We couldn't afford the good tickets, so we spent the flight crammed in coach.

7. USThe lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class.

present singular third person coaches · participle present coaching · participle past coached · past coached

1. intransitivehobbiesTo train.
2. transitiveTo instruct; to train.

   She has coached many opera stars.

3. intransitiveTo study under a tutor.
4. intransitiveTo travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).

   Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters

   1653, Edward Waterhouse, A humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men

5. transitiveTo convey in a coach.

   The needy poet sticks to all he meets, Coached, carted, trod upon, now loose, now fast. And carried off in some dog's tail at last

   1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC

1. USnot comparableVia the part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; via the economy section.

   John flew coach to Vienna, but first-class back home.