coach

kəʊtʃ

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#1·1d ago

(rail, UK, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.

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#2·1d ago

(originally, Oxford University, _, slang) A trainer or instructor.

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#3·1d ago

A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.

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Origin: Borrowed from , from , from . 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. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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