Coachとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kəʊtʃ/, [kʰəʊ̯tʃ]
• (米国発音) IPA: /koʊt͡ʃ/, [kʰoʊ̯t͡ʃ]
• 韻: -əʊtʃ

名詞

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.

派生語

関連する語

• coachee

派生した語

動詞

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

派生語

派生した語

• → Dutch: coachen

副詞

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.

派生語

• coachability

参照

アナグラム

• Cacho, Chaco, chaco