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Added 9 October 2026

coach

/kəʊtʃ/ noun

In Latin: carrūca, raeda Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about coach at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

(sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team.
A person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.).
A railcar where passengers ride.

verb

Teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports.
He is training our Olympic team
Drive a coach.

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.

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