COACH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coach mean? 

• COACH (noun)
  The noun COACH has 5 senses:

1. (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team

2. a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)

3. a railcar where passengers ride

4. a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver

5. a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport

  Familiarity information: COACH used as a noun is common.

• COACH (verb)
  The verb COACH has 2 senses:

1. teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports

2. drive a coach

  Familiarity information: COACH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COACH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

coach; handler; manager

Hypernyms ("coach" is a kind of...):

trainer (one who trains other persons or animals)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coach"):

baseball coach; baseball manager (a coach of baseball players)

basketball coach (a coach of basketball players)

conditioner (a trainer of athletes)

football coach (a coach of football players)

hockey coach (a coach of hockey players)

tennis coach (a coach of tennis players)

Instance hyponyms:

John Joseph McGraw; John McGraw; McGraw (United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934))

Derivation:

coach (teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

coach; private instructor; tutor

Hypernyms ("coach" is a kind of...):

instructor; teacher (a person whose occupation is teaching)

Domain category:

singing; vocalizing (the act of singing vocal music)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coach"):

crammer (a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A railcar where passengers ride

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

carriage; coach; passenger car

Hypernyms ("coach" is a kind of...):

car; railcar; railroad car; railway car (a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coach"):

sleeper; sleeping car; wagon-lit (a passenger car that has berths for sleeping)

smoker; smoking car; smoking carriage; smoking compartment (a passenger car for passengers who wish to smoke)

Pullman; Pullman car (luxurious passenger car; for day or night travel)

chair car; drawing-room car; palace car; parlor car; parlour car (a passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs)

nonsmoker; nonsmoking car (a passenger car for passengers who want to avoid tobacco smoke)

buffet car; diner; dining car; dining compartment (a passenger car where food is served in transit)

Holonyms ("coach" is a member of...):

passenger train (a train that carries passengers)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A carriage pulled by four horses with one driver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

coach; coach-and-four; four-in-hand

Hypernyms ("coach" is a kind of...):

carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)

Meronyms (parts of "coach"):

box; box seat (the driver's seat on a coach)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coach"):

stage; stagecoach (a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns)

Derivation:

coach (drive a coach)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

autobus; bus; charabanc; coach; double-decker; jitney; motorbus; motorcoach; omnibus; passenger vehicle

Context example:

he always rode the bus to work

Hypernyms ("coach" is a kind of...):

public transport (conveyance for passengers or mail or freight)

Meronyms (parts of "coach"):

roof (protective covering on top of a motor vehicle)

window (a transparent opening in a vehicle that allow vision out of the sides or back; usually is capable of being opened)

Domain member category:

passenger; rider (a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coach"):

school bus (a bus used to transport children to or from school)

trackless trolley; trolley coach; trolleybus (a passenger bus with an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires)

minibus (a light bus (4 to 10 passengers))

Holonyms ("coach" is a member of...):

fleet (group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership)

• COACH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they coach    ... he / she / it coaches   
Past simple: coached   
Past participle: coached   
-ing form: coaching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

coach; train

Context example:

She is coaching the crew

Hypernyms (to "coach" is one way to...):

instruct; learn; teach (impart skills or knowledge to)

Verb group:

train (exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

coach ((sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team)

coaching (the job of a professional coach)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Drive a coach

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "coach" is one way to...):

drive (operate or control a vehicle)

Domain category:

driving (the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

coach (a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver)

 Context examples 

Then, as we flew along, the driver leaned forward, and on each side the passengers, craning over the edge of the coach, peered eagerly into the darkness.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Their movements perceptibly quickened under his coaching, and as the boat swung inboard I was sent forward to let go the jibs.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I got away from Agnes and her father, somehow, with an indifferent show of being very manly, and took my seat upon the box of the London coach.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had much rather go in the coach.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Dark rumours gathered round him in the university town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and to come down to London, where he set up as an Army coach.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And I still appeal to my servants round, whether they at any time saw a coach at my door, without knowing what persons were in it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We took a public coach, Tregellis, clapped the postillions into the rumble, and jumped on to their places.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So they put her into the coach, and took her home to the king’s palace.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Here I paused, I knew not why; but I remained some minutes with my eyes fixed on a coach that was coming towards me from the other end of the street.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

When I'm in Parlyment and riding in my coach, I don't want none of these sea-lawyers in the cabin a-coming home, unlooked for, like the devil at prayers.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)