coach

noun

/kəʊtʃ/

Idioms

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[countable] a person who trains a person or team in sport
- the head/assistant coach
- a basketball/football coach
- the team coach
- the England coach
- Italy’s national coach
- Coach Bob Shapiro
- the Giants coach Tom Coughlin
- coach of/with/for somebody/something the coach of the New York Knicks
- a coach with the Chicago Cubs
- a coach for the US Olympic team
- He is a former college football coach.
Extra Examples
- a top basketball coach
- The Giants coach had this to say last night:…
- The national athletics coach was interviewed after the event.
- Who's the team coach?
- See you tomorrow, Coach.
- a pitching coach
Topics Sports: other sportsa2, Educationa2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- good
- successful
- top
- …
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[countable] a person who gives private lessons to somebody, often to prepare them for an exam
- a maths coach
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- good
- successful
- top
- …
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[countable]
(also life coach)
a person who is employed by somebody to give them advice about how to achieve the things they want in their life and work
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[countable] (British English) a comfortable bus for carrying passengers over long distances
- to take/get a coach
- by coach Travel is by coach overnight to Berlin.
- on a coach Four passengers on the coach were seriously injured in the crash.
- a coach tour/journey/trip
- coach to/for… She was seen boarding a coach to Southampton.
- coach from… I got off the coach from London and walked home.
- They went to Italy on a coach tour.
- a coach driver/passenger/operator
- a coach station (= where coaches start and end their journey)
- a coach party (= a group of people travelling together on a coach)
Extra Examples
- They are planning to tour the United States by coach.
- They travelled by coach from London to Berlin.
Topics Transport by car or lorrya2, Transport by bus and traina2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- express
- private
- luxury
- …
verb + coach
- go by
- travel by
- board
- …
coach + noun
- station
- driver
- holiday
- …
preposition
- by coach
- in a/the coach
- on a/the coach
- …
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[countable]
(also carriage (both British English), North American English car)
a separate section of a train for carrying passengers
- a railway coach
Extra Examples
- Our seats are in Coach D.
- When the train finally came into the platform it only had two coaches.
Topics Transport by bus and trainb2
[countable] a large closed vehicle with four wheels, pulled by horses, used in the past for carrying passengers
- This is the old coach road.
- a gateway wide enough for a coach and four (= pulled by four horses) to drive through
see also stagecoachTopics Historyc2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- royal
verb + coach
- drive
- ride in
coach + verb
- drive
coach + noun
- road
- house
phrases
- a coach and horses
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[uncountable] (North American English) the cheapest seats in a plane
- to fly coach
- coach fares/passengers/seats
Topics Transport by airc2

Word Originnoun senses 3 to 7 mid 16th cent. (in sense (6)): from French coche, from Hungarian kocsi (szekér) ‘(wagon) from Kocs’, a town in Hungary. noun senses 1 to 3 early 18th cent. (as a verb): figuratively from coach referring to a vehicle.

Idioms

drive a coach and horses through something

to cause something to fail, for example a plan

coach

verb

/kəʊtʃ/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they coach	/kəʊtʃ/ /kəʊtʃ/
he / she / it coaches	/ˈkəʊtʃɪz/ /ˈkəʊtʃɪz/
past simple coached	/kəʊtʃt/ /kəʊtʃt/
past participle coached	/kəʊtʃt/ /kəʊtʃt/
-ing form coaching	/ˈkəʊtʃɪŋ/ /ˈkəʊtʃɪŋ/

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to train somebody to play a sport, to do a job better, or to improve a skill
- coach somebody He has coached the team for five years.
- She has coached hundreds of young singers.
- coach somebody for something Her father coached her for the Olympics.
- coach somebody in something Youngsters will be coached in the basics of the game.
- coach something He coaches basketball and soccer.
Topics Sports: other sportsb1, Educationb1
coach somebody (in/for something) (especially British English) to give a student extra teaching in a particular subject especially so that they will pass an examTopics Educationb1
to give somebody special instructions for what they should do or say in a particular situation
- coach somebody (in/on something) They believed the witnesses had been coached on what to say.
- coach somebody to do something The president's advisers coached him to adopt a more serious tone.

Word Originverb early 18th cent. (as a verb): figuratively from coach referring to a vehicle.