are the following compound words?

[crisgal]

Teatime
lunchtime
daytime

[boxtops]

Yes, they are a compound of two separate words -day and time, etc

[crisgal]

Well my son wrote them on his homework and its come back marked wrong. She says they're not!

[boxtops]

I;d tell her she's wrong http://www.janbrett.c...ggybacks/compound.htm

[ojread2]

mmmm, daytime maybe, but aren't tea time and lunch time 2 separate words?

[crisgal]

According to dictionary they are hyphenated, so not sure!

[ojread2]

yeah, I've seen that as well
TBH you can find all 3 written as separate words and hyphenated! lol

[vivandorron]

I am saying nothing more than what has been said by boxtops.(nothing also being a compound word IMO.)

Ron.

[Canary42]

Literacy standards amongst teachers today are poor.

[FredPuli43]

Unfortunately not lunchime or teatime, unless dinnertime is one word, too ! But we use hyphens to separate words when one noun describes the other, so tea-time is the time for, or connected with, tea. Over time,this practice has been dying out.Old books have more hyphenated words in consequence. But daytime is one word which has lost its hyphen in this way, although it might be written day-time still.
Your son is merely ahead of his time!

[THECORBYLOON]

The online version of Chamber's Dictionary has lunchtime and daytime as single words so they are compounds.

[Quizmonster]

We are losing our hyphens but not as rapidly as the Americans are losing theirs. That reminds me of an old bugbear of mine, their word for colleague, which is coworker. Every time I see it, I read it as cow-orker, simply because no British word I can think of with the opening letters C, O, W is pronounced anything other than cow...cowage, cowal, cowan, coward, cowed and so forth.
Yes, I know there is no verb, to ork, but still, what about joint authorship where it might be said that someone co-writes with someone else? It is quite possible that some weird sect has ceremonies involving cattle and these might well be called cow-rites.
They should stick to their own motto...if it ain't broke, don't fix it...and keep co-worker.
Having said the above, The Oxford English Dictionary lists only tea-time and lunch-time WITH hyphens.

[boxtops]

so crisgal, it would be useful for you to ask that teacher what she DOES define as compound words, what did she teach in that lesson?