different between coach vs trotter

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi. According to historians, the coach was named after the small Hungarian town of Kocs, which made a livelihood from cart building and transport between Vienna and Budapest.

The meaning "instructor/trainer" is from Oxford University slang (c. 1830) for a "tutor" who "carries" one through an exam; the athletic sense is from 1861.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??t?/, [k????t?]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ko?t?/, [k?o??t?]
• Rhymes: -??t?

Noun

coach (plural coaches)

1. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

   Synonym: carriage

2. (rail transport, Britain, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.

   Synonym: carriage

4. (originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.
5. (Britain, Australia) A long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
6. (nautical) The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.

   • The commanders all came on board and the council sat in the coach.

7. (chiefly US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section.

Derived terms

Related terms

• coachee

Descendants

Translations

Verb

coach (third-person singular simple present coaches, present participle coaching, simple past and past participle coached)

1. (intransitive, sports) To train.
2. (transitive) To instruct; to train.

3. (intransitive) To study under a tutor.
4. (intransitive) To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
   • 1653, Edward Waterhouse, A humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men

     Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters

5. (transitive) To convey in a coach.

   • The needy poet sticks to all he meets,
     Coached, carted, trod upon, now loose, now fast.
     And carried off in some dog's tail at last

Adverb

coach (not comparable)

1. (chiefly US) Via the part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; via the economy section.

Derived terms

• coachability

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Cacho, Chaco, chaco

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?t?/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): [ko?t?]
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): [ko??t?]
• Hyphenation: coach

Noun

coach m (plural coaches or coachen, diminutive coachje n)

1. trainer, instructor, tutor, coach
2. counselor

Derived terms

• bondscoach
• coachen

Related terms

• koets

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kot?/

Noun

coach m (plural coachs)

1. coach, trainer, instructor

Derived terms

• coacher

Further reading

• “coach” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cocha

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach.

Noun

coach m (invariable)

1. coach (sports instructor)

Polish

Etymology

From English coach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?wt??/

Noun

coach m pers

1. (sports) coach, trainer (person who trains another)
2. (psychology) coach, instructor

   Synonym: trener

Declension

Noun

coach m inan

1. coachwork

Declension

Related terms

• (noun) coaching
• (adjective) coachingowy

Further reading

• coach in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• coach in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach. Doublet of coche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kot??/, [?kot??]

Noun

coach m (plural coaches)

1. (sports) coach

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English coach.

Noun

coach c

1. coach; a trainer or instructor

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Noun

trotter (plural trotters)

1. One who trots.
   • 2013, Stephen Dobyns, Saratoga Bestiary

     Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter.

2. In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer.
3. The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped.
4. (slang) A person's foot.
   • 2004, Charley Hester, ?Kirby Ross, The True Life Wild West Memoir of a Bush-popping Cow Waddy (page 27)

     Then you get up on your trotters, but you have a job to stand; / For the landscape 'round you totters and your collar's full of sand.

5. (Britain, historical) A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders.
   • 1830, William Cobbett, Eleven Lectures on the French and Belgian Revolutions (page 8)

     One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff ^[sic] of his county.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French trotter, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trott?re, *trot?re (“to go”), from Frankish *trott?n (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trud?n?, *trudan?, *tradjan? (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreu-, *der?-, *dr?- (“to run, escape”). Cognates: see English trot. More at tread.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.te/

Verb

trotter

1. (usually of a horse) to trot

Conjugation

Derived terms

• trottiner
• trottoir

Further reading

• “trotter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).