HYPHENATE

hyphenate, hyphen

(verb) divide or connect with a hyphen; “hyphenate these words and names”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

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.

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".

Synonyms

• person

Source: Wiktionary

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