coach
/koʊt͡ʃ/ noun A1- A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.
- A trainer or instructor. · football coach· spelling coach
- The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.
- 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.
- The lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class.
Plural coaches
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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At eleven o’clock the mourning-coaches rolled into the paved court, and the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré was filled with a crowd of idlers, equally pleased to witness the festivities or the mourning of the rich, and who rush with the same avidity to a funeral procession as to the marriage of a duchess.
The prisoner heard the cry, which sounded like the sob of a broken heart, and leaning from the coach he called out, “Good-bye, Mercédès—we shall soon meet again!” Then the vehicle disappeared round one of the turnings of Fort Saint Nicholas.
de Villefort get into the same mourning-coach, and thought this meeting forboded evil.
d’Épinay went on,—“You are still as brave in your carriage as in your assembly because you are still four against one.” The president stopped the coach.
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