teach-in

1. 1.

   an extended session (as on a college campus) for lectures and discussion on an important and usually controversial issue

   Broaderconference

Questions about teach-in

What does teach-in mean?

teach-in means "an extended session (as on a college campus) for lectures and discussion on an important and usually controversial issue".

How many syllables are in teach-in?

teach-in has 3 syllables and divides as te-a-ch-in 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 teach-in a common word?

teach-in 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.