COACH
What does "COACH" mean?
A person who trains and instructs athletes, performers, or learners.
Meanings
- Someone who trains and directs a sports team or individual athlete. The coach called a timeout in the final minute.
- A private tutor or instructor who prepares someone for an exam or skill. She hired a voice coach before the audition.
- A large enclosed four-wheeled carriage, or a long-distance bus or railway carriage. We took the overnight coach from London to Edinburgh.
- To train, tutor, or guide someone toward a goal. He coached the rookie through her first big presentation.
Did you know?
- A 'coach' is named after Kocs, a Hungarian town that built famous carriages - so a sports coach and a passenger coach share one hometown.
- The training sense began as Oxford slang in the 1830s: a tutor who 'carries' you through your exams, just as a carriage carries you down the road.
Word origin
From the Hungarian town Kocs, where a fine type of carriage was made; 'kocsi' (carriage of Kocs) passed through German and French into English, later extended to a tutor who 'carries' a student.
Remember it
A COACH carries you forward - whether it's a carriage on the road or a mentor toward a goal.
A little poem
Named for a town that built the finest cart,
the word still carries: bench, or bus, or guide -
one job, to move you somewhere you can't start.
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Wordplay
- I told my driving instructor he was also my life coach. He said either way, I needed to stay in my lane.
What it teaches
A good coach doesn't carry you the whole way - they carry you to where you can carry yourself.
Quick facts
What does COACH mean?
A person who trains and instructs athletes, performers, or learners.
Is COACH a valid word?
Yes — COACH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is COACH?
COACH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does COACH come from?
From the Hungarian town Kocs, where a fine type of carriage was made; 'kocsi' (carriage of Kocs) passed through German and French into English, later extended to a tutor who 'carries' a student.
What can COACH teach us?
A good coach doesn't carry you the whole way - they carry you to where you can carry yourself.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.