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A double-decker coach

The coach of a train

A horse-drawn coach in Japan

A tennis coach during a lesson

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.[1]

• (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊtʃ/, [kʰəʊ̯tʃ]
• (US) IPA(key): /koʊt͡ʃ/, [kʰoʊ̯t͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -əʊtʃ

coach (plural coaches)

1. A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.
   Synonym: carriage
   • 1989 February 12, Jennifer Justice, “A Night At The Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 9:
     I have a coach waiting. During intermission, would you consent to accompany me for a cooling ride around the city?
2. (rail transport, UK, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.
   Synonym: carriage
3. (originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.
   football coach
   spelling coach
   public coach
   horseriding coach
   politics coach
4. (British, Australia) A long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
5. (nautical) The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.
   • 1660 May 13 (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:
     The commanders all came on board and the council sat in the coach.
6. (chiefly US) The 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. (chiefly US) The lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class.

• accommodation coach

• aircoach

• autocoach

• baby coach

• camping coach

• coach and four

• coach and horses

• coach bolt

• coach box

• coachbox

• coachbuilder

• coachbuilding

• coach-built, coachbuilt

• coach dog

• coachdog

• coach driver

• coacher

• coachfellow

• coachful

• coach gun

• coachhood

• coach horn

• coachhorse

• coach horse

• coach house

• coach inn

• coach killer

• coach lamp

• coachless

• coachlet

• coachlike

• coachline

• coachload

• coachmaker

• coachmaking

• coachman

• coachmark

• coachmaster

• coachmate

• coach-office

• coach roof

• coach screw

• coachsmith

• coachspeak

• coachstand

• coach up

• coachwheel

• coachwhip (Fouquieria splendens)

• coachwoman

• coachwood

• coachwork

• coachwright

• coachyard

• dating coach

• daycoach

• devil's coach-horse

• drive a coach and horses through

• drive a coach and six through

• encoach

• get-back coach

• glass coach

• head coach

• life coach

• lozenge coach

• mailcoach

• motorcoach

• motor-coach

• motor coach

• quiet coach

• roach coach

• rural coach

• slip coach

• slowcoach

• slumbercoach, slumber coach

• stage-coach

• stagecoach

• supercoach

• who's robbing this coach

• coachee

• → Czech: kouč

• → Danish: coach

• → Dutch: coach

• → French: coach

• → German: Coach

• → Italian: coach

• → Japanese: コーチ (kōchi)

• → Korean: 코치 (kochi)

• → Malay: koc

• → Polish: coach

• → Portuguese: coach

• → Spanish: coach

• → Swahili: kocha

• → Swedish: coach

wheeled vehicle drawn by horse power — see also carriage

• Armenian: կառք (hy) (kaṙkʻ)
• Belarusian: паво́зка f (pavózka), воз (be) m (voz), карэ́та f (karéta), экіпа́ж m (ekipáž)
• Bulgarian: по́щенска кола́ f (póštenska kolá)
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 馬車 / 马车 (zh) (mǎchē)
• Czech: kočár (cs) m
• Danish: personvogn c
• Dutch: koets (nl) c
• Esperanto: ĉaro
• Finnish: vaunut (fi)
• French: coche (fr) m
• German: Kutsche (de) f
• Greek: πούλμαν (el) n (poúlman)
• Gujarati: કોચ n (koc)
• Hungarian: hintó (hu), kocsi (hu), szekér (hu)
• Irish: cóiste m, carráiste m
• Italian: carrozza (it) f, vettura (it) f, diligenza (it) f, cocchio (it) m
• Japanese: 馬車 (ja) (ばしゃ, basha)
• Korean: 마차(馬車) (ko) (macha)
• Kurdish:
  Northern Kurdish: erebe (ku) f, erebane (ku) f
• Latin: carrūca f, raeda f
• Latvian: kariete (lv) f, rati (lv) m pl
• Macedonian: кочија f (kočija)
• Malay: koc, gerabak (ms)
• Māori: koti
• Norman: cârrosse f
• Persian:
  Iranian Persian: کالِسْکِه (fa) (kâleske)
• Polish: powóz (pl) m, kareta (pl) f
• Portuguese: coche (pt) m
• Romanian: trăsură (ro) f, caleașcă (ro) f
• Russian: пово́зка (ru) f (povózka), каре́та (ru) f (karéta), коля́ска (ru) f (koljáska), экипа́ж (ru) m (ekipáž), дилижа́нс (ru) m (diližáns)
• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ко̀чија f
  Latin: kòčija (sh) f
• Slovene: kočija (sl) f
• Spanish: coche (es) m
• Swedish: skjuts (sv), diligens (sv)
• Turkish:
  Ottoman Turkish: قاروچه (karoça)
• Ukrainian: пово́зка f (povózka), екіпа́ж m (ekipáž), по́віз m (póviz) (old)

rail passenger car

• Albanian: vagon (sq) m
• Arabic: عَرَبَة f (ʕaraba)
• Armenian: վագոն (hy) (vagon)
• Assamese: দবা (doba)
• Azerbaijani: vaqon (az)
• Belarusian: ваго́н (be) m (vahón)
• Bulgarian: ваго́н (bg) m (vagón)
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 車廂 / 车厢 (zh) (chēxiāng)
• Czech: vagón (cs) m
• Danish: passagervogn c, togvogn c, jernbanevogn c
• Dutch: wagen (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĉaro, pulmano
• Estonian: vagun (et)
• Finnish: vaunu (fi)
• French: voiture (fr) f
• Georgian: ვაგონი (ka) (vagoni)
• German: Wagen (de) m
• Greek: βαγόνι (el) n (vagóni)
• Hebrew: קָרוֹן (he) m (karón), קרון נוסעים m (karon nosim), קרונות נוסעים m pl (kronot nosim)
• Hindi: रेलगाड़ी f (relgāṛī), गाड़ी (hi) f (gāṛī)
• Hungarian: vagon (hu), kocsi (hu)
• Icelandic: vagn (is) m, rúta (is)
• Indonesian: gerbong (id)
• Irish: carráiste m
• Italian: carrozza ferroviaria f, vettura (it) f
• Japanese: 客車 (ja) (きゃくしゃ, kyakusha)
• Kazakh: вагон (vagon)
• Khmer: វ៉ាហ្គុង (vaagung), ទូរទេះភ្លើង (tuu rɔteh phləəng)
• Korean: 객차(客車) (ko) (gaekcha)
• Kurdish:
  Northern Kurdish: vagon (ku) f
• Kyrgyz: вагон (ky) (vagon)
• Lao: ວາກົງ (wā kong)
• Latvian: vagons m
• Lithuanian: vagonas m
• Macedonian: вагон (mk) m (vagon)
• Malay: koc, gerabak (ms), gerbong
• Mongolian:
  Cyrillic: вагон (mn) (vagon)
  Mongolian script: ᠸᠠᠭᠣᠨ (waɣon)
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: vogn m or f
  Nynorsk: vogn f
• Pashto: واګون m (wāgun)
• Persian:
  Iranian Persian: واگُن (vâgon)
• Polish: wagon (pl) m
• Portuguese: carruagem (pt) f
• Romanian: vagon (ro) n
• Russian: ваго́н (ru) m (vagón)
• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ва̀го̄н m
  Latin: vàgōn (sh) m
• Slovak: vagón m
• Slovene: vagon m
• Spanish: vagón (es) m
• Swedish: vagn (sv)
• Tajik: вагон (vagon)
• Thai: ตู้รถไฟ (dtûu-rót-fai)
• Turkmen: wagon
• Ukrainian: ваго́н (uk) m (vahón)
• Uyghur: ۋاگۇن (wagun)
• Uzbek: vagon (uz)
• Vietnamese: toa (vi)

trainer

• Albanian: trajner (sq) m
• Arabic: مُدَرِّب (ar) m (mudarrib), مُدَرِّبَة f (mudarriba)
• Armenian: մարզիչ (hy) (marzičʻ)
• Assamese: প্ৰশিক্ষক (proxikhok)
• Azerbaijani: məşqçi (az)
• Belarusian: трэ́нер m (trénjer), трэ́нерка f (trénjerka), трэ́нэр m (tréner), трэ́нэрка f (trénerka)
• Bulgarian: треньо́р m (trenjór), треньо́рка f (trenjórka)
• Catalan: entrenador (ca) m, entrenadora (ca) f
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 教練 / 教练 (zh) (jiàoliàn)
• Czech: trenér (cs) m, trenérka (cs) f, kouč (cs) m
• Danish: træner (da) c
• Dutch: coach (nl) m, trainer (nl) m, trainster (nl) f
• Esperanto: trejnisto
• Estonian: treener
• Finnish: valmentaja (fi)
• French: entraineur (fr) m, entraineuse (fr) f
• Galician: adestrador (gl) m, adestradora f
• Georgian: მწვრთნელი (mc̣vrtneli)
• German: Trainer (de) m, Trainerin (de) f, Coach (de) m, Coachin f
• Greek: προπονητής (el) m (proponitís), προπονήτρια (el) f (proponítria)
• Hebrew: מאמן \ מְאַמֵּן (he) m (meamén), מאמנת \ מְאַמֶּנֶת f (meaménet)
• Hindi: प्रशिक्षक m (praśikṣak), ट्रेनर m (ṭrenar)
• Hungarian: edző (hu), tréner (hu)
• Icelandic: þjálfari m
• Indonesian: pelatih (id)
• Irish: cóitseálaí m, traenálaí m
• Italian: allenatore (it) m, allenatrice f, istruttore (it) m, istruttrice (it) f, coach (it) m
• Japanese: コーチ (ja) (kōchi), トレーナー (ja) (torēnā)
• Kazakh: бапкер (bapker), жаттықтырушы (jattyqtyruşy)
• Khmer: គ្រូបង្វឹក (kruu bɑngvək)
• Korean: 코치 (ko) (kochi), 트레이너 (teureineo)
• Kurdish:
  Northern Kurdish: rahêner (ku) m or f, antrenor (ku) m or f
• Kyrgyz: тренер (ky) (trener)
• Latin: exercitor m
• Latvian: treneris m
• Lithuanian: treneris m, trenerė f
• Macedonian: тренер m (trener), тренерка f (trenerka)
• Malay: koc, jurulatih (ms)
• Mongolian:
  Cyrillic: сургагч (mn) (surgagč)
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: trener (no) m
  Nynorsk: trenar m
• Persian:
  Iranian Persian: مُرَبّی (fa) (morabbi)
• Polish: trener (pl) m, trenerka (pl) f
• Portuguese: treinador (pt) m, treinadora f, técnico (pt) m, técnica (pt) f, coach (pt) m
• Romanian: antrenor (ro) m, antrenoare (ro) f, coach (ro) m
• Russian: тре́нер (ru) m (tréner) (male or female), тре́нерша (ru) f (trénerša) (the female form is colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: тре́нер m
  Latin: tréner (sh) m
• Slovak: tréner m, trénerka f
• Slovene: trener (sl) m, trenerka f
• Spanish: entrenador (es) m, entrenadora (es) f, míster (es) m, preparador m, coach m or f, couch (es) c (United States), técnico (es) m
• Swahili: mkufunzi (sw), kocha (sw)
• Swedish: tränare (sv) c, coach (sv) c
• Tajik: тренер (trener), мураббӣ (murabbi)
• Thai: ครูฝึก (kruu-fʉ̀k), โค้ช (th) (kóot), ผู้สอน (pûu-sɔ̌ɔn), ผู้ฝึกสอน (pûu-fʉ̀k-sɔ̌ɔn)
• Turkish: koç (tr), antrenör (tr)
• Turkmen: trener
• Ukrainian: тре́нер m (tréner), тре́нерка f (trénerka)
• Urdu: ٹْرینَر m (ṭrenar)
• Uzbek: trener (uz)
• Vietnamese: huấn luyện viên (vi)
• Walloon: etrinneu (wa) m, etrinnresse f

long-distance bus

• Arabic: حافلة السفر f (ḥāfila al-safar), حافلة النقل الخارجي f (ḥāfila al-naql al-khārijī), حافلة النقل المدني f (ḥāfila al-naql al-madanī), حَافِلَة الْمَسَافَات الْبَعِيدَة f (ḥāfilat al-masāfāt al-baʕīda)
• Breton: karr-boutin (br) m
• Catalan: autocar (ca) m
• Chinese:
  Cantonese: 長途巴士 / 长途巴士 (coeng4 tou4 baa1 si6-2)
  Mandarin: 長途汽車 / 长途汽车 (zh) (chángtú qìchē), 客車 / 客车 (zh) (kèchē)
  Wu: 客车
• Danish: rutebil (da) c
• Dutch: touringcar (nl) c, reisbus (nl) m, snelbus (nl) m (public transport)
• Esperanto: aŭtoĉaro
• Finnish: bussi (fi), linja-auto (fi)
• French: autocar (fr) m
• German: Reisebus (de) m, Überlandbus (de) m, Bus (de) m
• Greek: υπεραστικό λεωφορείο n (yperastikó leoforeío)
• Hungarian: távolsági autóbusz (hu), távolsági busz
• Indonesian: bus jarak jauh, bus besar
• Irish: bus m
• Italian: corriera (it) f, pullman (it)
• Japanese: 高速バス (ja), コーチ (ja)
• Kurdish:
  Northern Kurdish: otobûs (ku) f
• Malay: koc
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: turbuss m, langdistansebuss m
  Nynorsk: turbuss m, langdistansebuss m
• Polish: autokar (pl)
• Portuguese: carreira (pt) f, autocarro (pt) m, ônibus (pt) m, autopullman m, autocarro de turismo, ônibus rodoviario m
• Romanian: autocar (ro) n
• Russian: авто́бус (ru) m (avtóbus), автобус дальнего следования m (avtobus dalʹnevo sledovanija)
• Spanish: autocar m
• Swedish: buss (sv), långfärdsbuss (sv)
• Tamil: கோச் (kōc)
• Thai: รถโค้ช
• Turkish: şehirlerarası otobüs sg
• Ukrainian: авто́бус (uk) m (avtóbus), автобус далекого прямування m (avtobus dalekoho prjamuvannja)
• Vietnamese: xe khách (vi)

Translations to be checked

• Slovak: (please verify) koč

coach (third-person singular simple present coaches, present participle coaching, simple past and past participle coached)

1. (intransitive, sports) To train.
2. (transitive) To instruct; to train.
   She has coached many opera stars.
3. (intransitive) To study under a tutor.
4. (intransitive) To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
   • 1653, Edward Waterhouse, A humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men:
     Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters
5. (transitive) To convey in a coach.
   • 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
     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

• coachable

• outcoach

• overcoach

• recoach

• uncoach

• → Dutch: coachen

sports: train

• Bulgarian: тренирам (bg) (treniram)
• Czech: trénovat (cs)
• Dutch: coachen (nl), trainen (nl)
• Finnish: valmentaa (fi)
• French: entraîner (fr), entrainer (fr), coacher (fr)
• German: trainieren (de)
• Greek: προπονώ (el) (proponó)
• Hebrew: אימן (imén)
• Hungarian: edz (hu), treníroz (hu)
• Italian: allenare (it), addestrare (it)
• Kurdish:
  Northern Kurdish: rahênan (ku)
• Macedonian: трени́ра (treníra)
• Polish: trenować (pl) impf
• Portuguese: treinar (pt)
• Romanian: antrena (ro)
• Slovak: trénovať
• Slovene: trenirati
• Spanish: entrenar (es), cochear (es) (Latin America), cochar (Central America)
• Swedish: träna (sv), coacha (sv)

instruct

• Dutch: opleiden (nl)
• French: instruire (fr)
• German: ausbilden (de)
• Hungarian: oktat (hu), képez (hu), tanít (hu)
• Kurdish:
  Northern Kurdish: rahênan (ku), fêr kirin (ku)
• Macedonian: трени́ра (treníra)
• Romanian: instrui (ro)

coach (not comparable)

1. (chiefly US) Via 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.

• coachability

1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “coach”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• Cacho, Chaco, chaco

Borrowed from English coach.

• IPA(key): /koːtʃ/
• (Belgium) IPA(key): [koːtʃ]
• (Netherlands) IPA(key): [koʊ̯tʃ]
• Hyphenation: coach

coach m (plural coaches or coachen, diminutive coachje n)

1. trainer, instructor, tutor, coach
2. counselor

• bondscoach
• coachen
• koets

Borrowed from English coach. Doublet of coche.

• IPA(key): /kovtʃ/

coach m (plural coachs)

1. coach, trainer, instructor

• coacher
• “coach”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• cocha

Unadapted borrowing from English coach.

• IPA(key): /ˈkot͡ʃ/, /ˈkɔt͡ʃ/[1]
• Rhymes: -otʃ, -ɔtʃ

coach m (invariable)

1. coach (sports instructor)

2. ^ coach in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Unadapted borrowing from English coach, from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi.

• IPA(key): /ˈkɔwt͡ʂ/
• Rhymes: -ɔwt͡ʂ
• Syllabification: coach

coach m pers

1. (sports) coach, trainer (person who trains another)
2. (psychology) coach, instructor
   Synonyms: szkoleniowiec, trener

coach m inan

1. coachwork

• coachingowy

• coaching

• “coach”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[1] (in Polish)

Unadapted borrowing from English coach.

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈko(w)t͡ʃ/ [ˈko(ʊ̯)t͡ʃ], /ˈko(w).t͡ʃi/ [ˈko(ʊ̯).t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈko(w)t͡ʃ/ [ˈko(ʊ̯)t͡ʃ], /ˈko(w).t͡ʃi/ [ˈko(ʊ̯).t͡ʃi]

  • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈko(w)t͡ʃ/ [ˈko(ʊ̯)t͡ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈko(w)t͡ʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈko(w)t͡ʃ/

  • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkowt͡ʃ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkot͡ʃ/

• Rhymes: -owtʃi, -otʃi, -otʃ

coach m or f by sense (plural coaches)

1. motivational speaker
2. life coach (professional who helps clients to achieve their personal goals)

Unadapted borrowing from English coach. Doublet of coche.

• IPA(key): /ˈkout͡ʃ/ [ˈkou̯t͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -outʃ
• Syllabification: coach

coach m (plural coaches)

1. (sports) coach

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “coach”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “coach”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense

Borrowed from English coach. First attested in 1962.

coach c

1. coach; a trainer or instructor

• “coach”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)