hyphenate
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From hyphen + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈhaɪf(ə)ˌneɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]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.
- you have to hyphenate his surname as it's double-barrelled
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules
to join words or syllables with a hyphen
Etymology 2
[edit]From hyphen + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈhaɪfənət/
Noun
[edit]hyphenate (plural hyphenates)
- 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".
- 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.
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