hyphenate

Meanings

Plural: hyphenates

Verb

• divide or connect with a hyphen
  • "hyphenate these words and names"
• to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules by adding a hyphen on the end of the line.
• to join words or syllables with a hyphen.

Noun

• A person or object with multiple duties, abilities or characteristics, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".
• A person whose ethnicity is a multi-word hyphenated term, such as "African-American".

Synonyms

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