hyphenate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈhʌɪf(ə)neɪt/
hyphenate (hyphenates, present participle hyphenating; 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.
- French: mettre la césure
- German: abteilen
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.
- 2006, Nick Adams, Making Friends With Black People (page 15)
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