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hyphenate

English

Etymology

hyphen +? -ate

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /?h??f(?)ne?t/

Verb

hyphenate (third-person singular simple present hyphenates, present participle hyphenating, simple past and past participle hyphenated)

(transitive) 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.
(transitive) to join words or syllables with a hyphen.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

hyphenate (plural hyphenates)

A person with multiple duties or abilities, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".
A person whose ethnicity is a multi-word hyphenated term, such as "African-American".
- 2006, Nick Adams, Making Friends With Black People (page 15)
  We seem to have settled on African-American, and at first glance it certainly does seem logical. […] Not to mention what happens when hyphenates marry other hyphenates and have baby hyphenates.

Synonyms

person

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