coach

coach
Ⅰ.
coach [1] NOUN 1) chiefly Brit. a comfortably equipped single-decker bus used for longer journeys. 2) a railway carriage. 3) a closed horse-drawn carriage.
VERB travel or convey by coach.
ORIGIN French coche, from Hungarian kocsi szekér 'wagon from Kocs' , a town in Hungary.
Ⅱ.
coach [2] NOUN 1) an instructor or trainer in sport. 2) a tutor who gives private or specialized teaching.
VERB train or teach as a coach.
ORIGIN a figurative extension of COACH(Cf. ↑coach).

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