teach

1. 1.

   an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)

   SynonymsEdward TeachThatchEdward ThatchBlackbeard

   Broaderpirate

Other forms of teach

plural

teaches·

past tense or participle

taught

present participle

teaching·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about teach

What does teach mean?

teach means "impart skills or knowledge to". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in teach?

teach has 1 syllable: teach. In IPA it is /ˈtitʃ/.

What is another word for teach?

Close synonyms include learn, instruct, Edward Teach, Thatch, Edward Thatch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is teach a common word?

teach is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.