boat-race

1. 1.

   participate in a boat race

   Broaderrace

Questions about boat-race

What does boat-race mean?

boat-race means "participate in a boat race".

How many syllables are in boat-race?

boat-race has 3 syllables: bo-a-t-race. The stress falls on "bo".

Is boat-race a common word?

boat-race is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.