- [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 ExamplesTopics Sports: other sportsa2, Educationa2- 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
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- good
- successful
- top
- …
- [countable] a person who gives private lessons to somebody, often to prepare them for an exam
- a maths coach
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- good
- successful
- top
- …
- [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
- [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 ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorrya2, Transport by bus and traina2- They are planning to tour the United States by coach.
- They travelled by coach from London to Berlin.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- express
- private
- luxury
- …
- go by
- travel by
- board
- …
- station
- driver
- holiday
- …
- by coach
- in a/the coach
- on a/the coach
- …
- [countable] (also carriage (both British English), North American English car)a separate section of a train for carrying passengers
- a railway coach
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by bus and trainb2- Our seats are in Coach D.
- When the train finally came into the platform it only had two coaches.
- [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
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- royal
- drive
- ride in
- drive
- road
- house
- a coach and horses
- [uncountable] (North American English) the cheapest seats in a plane
- to fly coach
- coach fares/passengers/seats
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
See coach in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee coach in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishdrive a coach and horses through something
- to cause something to fail, for example a plan
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