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{
"term": "coach",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"image": "data/images/ve/vehicles_buses.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a person who trains a person or team in sport",
"sensetop": "coach of/with/for somebody/something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "the **head/assistant coach**"
},
{
"text": "a **basketball/football coach**"
},
{
"text": "the team coach"
},
{
"text": "the England coach"
},
{
"text": "Italy’s national coach"
},
{
"text": "Coach Bob Shapiro"
},
{
"text": "the Giants coach Tom Coughlin"
},
{
"text": "the coach of the New York Knicks",
"contextForm": "coach of/with/for somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "a coach with the Chicago Cubs"
},
{
"text": "a coach for the US Olympic team"
},
{
"text": "He is a former college football coach."
},
{
"text": "a top basketball coach"
},
{
"text": "The Giants coach had this to say last night:…"
},
{
"text": "The national athletics coach was interviewed after the event."
},
{
"text": "Who's the team coach?"
},
{
"text": "See you tomorrow, Coach."
},
{
"text": "a pitching coach"
}
],
"topics": ["Sports: other sports", "Education"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["good", "successful", "top"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a person who gives private lessons to somebody, often to prepare them for an exam",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a maths coach"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["good", "successful", "top"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a person who is employed by somebody to give them advice about how to achieve the things they want in their life and work",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a comfortable bus for carrying passengers over long distances",
"sensetop": "by coachon a coachcoach to/for…coach from…",
"labels": "(British English)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "to take/get a coach"
},
{
"text": "Travel is by coach overnight to Berlin.",
"contextForm": "by coach"
},
{
"text": "Four passengers on the coach were seriously injured in the crash.",
"contextForm": "on a coach"
},
{
"text": "a coach tour/journey/trip"
},
{
"text": "She was seen boarding a coach to Southampton.",
"contextForm": "coach to/for…"
},
{
"text": "I got off the coach from London and walked home.",
"contextForm": "coach from…"
},
{
"text": "They went to Italy on a coach tour."
},
{
"text": "a coach driver/passenger/operator"
},
{
"text": "a coach station *(= where coaches start and end their journey)*"
},
{
"text": "a coach party *(= a group of people travelling together on a coach)*"
},
{
"text": "They are planning to tour the United States by coach."
},
{
"text": "They travelled by coach from London to Berlin."
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by car or lorry", "Transport by bus and train"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["express", "private", "luxury"],
"verb + coach": ["go by", "travel by", "board"],
"coach + noun": ["station", "driver", "holiday"],
"preposition": ["by coach", "in a/the coach", "on a/the coach"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "a separate section of a train for carrying passengers",
"labels": "(both British English)North American English",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a railway coach"
},
{
"text": "Our seats are in Coach D."
},
{
"text": "When the train finally came into the platform it only had two coaches."
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by bus and train"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "a large closed vehicle with four wheels, pulled by horses, used in the past for carrying passengers",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "This is the old coach road."
},
{
"text": "a gateway wide enough for a coach and four *(= pulled by four horses)* to drive through"
}
],
"topics": ["History"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["royal"],
"verb + coach": ["drive", "ride in"],
"coach + verb": ["drive"],
"coach + noun": ["road", "house"],
"phrases": ["a coach and horses"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 7,
"definition": "the cheapest seats in a plane",
"labels": "(North American English)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to fly coach"
},
{
"text": "**coach fares/passengers/seats**"
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by air"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to cause something to fail, for example a plan",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kəʊtʃ/",
"audio": "co/coach/coach__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kəʊtʃ/",
"audio": "co/coach/coach__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "noun senses 3 to 7 mid 16th cent. (in sense (6)): from French coche, from Hungarian kocsi (szekér) ‘(wagon) from Kocs’, a town in Hungary. noun senses 1 to 3 early 18th cent. (as a verb): figuratively from coach referring to a vehicle."
}