church-state

1. 1.

   a state ruled by religious authority

   Broadertheocracy

Questions about church-state

What does church-state mean?

church-state means "a state ruled by religious authority".

How many syllables are in church-state?

church-state has 2 syllables and divides as church--state under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is church-state a common word?

church-state 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.