English edit

Etymology edit

Back-formation from home teaching.

Verb edit

home teach (third-person singular simple present home teaches, present participle home teaching, simple past and past participle home taught)

  1. (Mormonism) To teach as part of a home teaching assignment.
    • 1974 January, Hartman Rector Jr., “You Shall Receive the Spirit”, in Ensign[1], volume 3, number 4, page 105:
      I cannot say that I love to home teach until I get to the first home, and then I do love it because I then get the spirit of a home teacher because I am acting like a home teacher—doing what a home teacher does.