{
    "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."
}