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Meaning of hyphenate

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

hyphenate

Pronunciation:/ˈhʌɪf(ə)neɪt/

noun

Definitions

  1. A person with multiple duties or abilities, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".

  2. A person whose ethnicity is a multi-word hyphenated term, such as "African-American".

verb

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. To join words or syllables with a hyphen.