coach

Meanings

Noun

• A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.
• A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.
• A trainer or instructor.
• A long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
• The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.
• The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section.

Verb

• To train.
• To instruct; to train.
• To study under a tutor.
• To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
• To convey in a coach.

Adverb

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

Origin

• 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.
• 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.