hyphenate

hyphenate

English

Etymology

hyphen +‎ -ate

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɪf(ə)neɪt/

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Verb

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

1. (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.
2. (transitive) to join words or syllables with a hyphen.

   you have to hyphenate his surname as it's double-barrelled

Derived terms

• hyphenated
• multihyphenated
• unhyphenate
• unhyphenated

 

Translations

to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules

Bulgarian: пренасям дума (prenasjam duma) Finnish: tavuttaa (fi) French: mettre la césure German: abteilen (de), trennen (de) Greek: ενωτικεύω (enotikévo) Hungarian: elválaszt (hu) Swedish: avstava (sv)

to join words or syllables with a hyphen

Hungarian: kötőjelez, kötőjellel ír

Noun

hyphenate (plural hyphenates)

1. A person or object with multiple duties, abilities or characteristics, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".
2. 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