coach house
- noun
- /koʊtʃ haʊs/
- UK
:
casa de huéspedes
- The middle-aged idiot regarded him with a vague, interested smile and came into the coach-house.
Examples
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A wire-sheathed lantern, set on a rough oaken table, cast a wavering light around the coach-house and dimly showed the inner stable.
Fiction book (1995) -
The newly renovated coach house was the perfect space for her studio, close to the main residence.
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After the renovation, the coach house provided a cozy living area for guests visiting the family.
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Their property includes a charming coach house where they host art workshops in the summer.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small simple wooden house in the countryside or woods
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3.2
A house in the country used for staying and relaxing during summer
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6.8
A small building beside an old house where people keep carriages or cars
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is partly inferable from 'coach' (a carriage) + 'house' — a learner will plausibly guess the phrase refers to a building associated with coaches (e.g., storage/garage for carriages). However the common modern sense as a small self-contained dwelling or converted outbuilding is a metonymic/functional extension and not fully predictable from the literal parts (and 'coach' as 'carriage' is somewhat archaic), so B1 learners who only know the constituents may not derive the residential meaning reliably.
Etymology
Coach house also came to mean a small separate home on the same property after people began to change the old buildings that held coaches into living spaces. So today it can mean a 'small home' or 'guest house' near the main house.