hyphenate, hyphen
(verb) divide or connect with a hyphen; “hyphenate these words and names”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
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".
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Source: Wiktionary
21 April 2025
(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
