coach driver

coach driver

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Noun

coach driver (plural coach drivers)

1. A person driving a horse-drawn coach (carriage).
   • 2008 October 24, “La Diligence (comics)”, in English Wikipedia‎, Wikimedia Foundation, revision 247373934:

     The character of Hank Bully, the coach driver, is a caricature of actor Wallace Berry.

   • 2014 January 22, “Padilla Beard House”, in English Wikipedia‎, Wikimedia Foundation, revision 591890504:

     The relatively plain Greek Revival house was built c. 1850 for Padilla Beard, the first coach driver on the stage line connecting Boston and Reading.

2. (Britain, Australia) A person employed to drive a coach (bus).

Related terms

• (horse-drawn coach): coachman, coachwoman, stage driver
• (coach (bus)): bus driver

Translations

driver of a horse-drawn coach

Catalan: cotxer (ca) m, cotxera (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 馬車夫 (zh), 马车夫 (zh) (mǎchēfū) Czech: kočí (cs) m Danish: kusk (da) c Finnish: vuokra-ajuri, vossikka (fi) French: cocher (fr) m Galician: cocheiro (gl) m, cocheira f German: Kutscher (de) m, Kutscherin (de) f Greek: αμαξάς (el) m (amaxás) Hungarian: kocsis (hu), fogathajtó (hu) Icelandic: ekill (is) m, vagnstjóri m Italian: cocchiere (it) m

Japanese: 御者 (ja) (ぎょしゃ, gyosha) Macedonian: кочијаш m (kočijáš) Norwegian: kusk m Polish: woźnica (pl) m Portuguese: carruageiro m, carruageira f, cocheiro (pt) m, cocheira (pt) f Romanian: birjar (ro) m, droșcar (ro) m, vizitiu (ro) m Russian: ку́чер (ru) m (kúčer), изво́зчик (ru) m (izvózčik), ямщи́к (ru) m (jamščík), возни́ца (ru) m (vozníca) Serbo-Croatian: кочијаш m, kočijaš (sh) m Slovak: kočiš m Spanish: cochero (es) m, carruajero m Swahili: saisi (sw) Swedish: kusk (sv) c Upper Sorbian: pohonč m

driver of a coach (bus)

Chinese: Mandarin: 汽車司機, 汽车司机 (qìchē sījī) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: linja-autonkuljettaja (fi)

Norwegian: Bokmål: turbussjåfør m Nynorsk: turbussjåfør m Portuguese: motorista de ônibus m or f