Definitions for hyphenate

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hyphenate hy·phen·ate

Spelling: [verb hahy-fuh-neyt; adjective, noun Hyphenate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in hyphenate (aeehhnpty).

Definitions for hyphenate

noun

1. Informal. a person working or excelling in more than one craft or occupation:

adjective

1. of or relating to something of distinct form or origin that has been joined; connected by a hyphen.

verb (used with object)

1. to join by a hyphen.
2. to write or divide with a hyphen.

Origin of hyphenate

First recorded in 1850-55; hyphen + -ate¹

Examples for hyphenate

Index entries tend to not hyphenate words that are unhyphenated in the text.

hyphenate compounds of life and world; life-history, world-influence, but (by exception) lifetime.

hyphenate compounds of master; master-builder, master-stroke, but (by exception) masterpiece.

hyphenate compounds of god when this word forms the second element; sun-god, war-god, godsend, godson.

hyphenate the first two words (they really stand for one idea).

Frequently the printer made an mistake and forgot to hyphenate all or part of a word.

For example, the text uses no hyphen on "today" while one of the captions does hyphenate it.

hyphenate compounds of great in phrases indicating degrees of descent; great-grandmother, great-great-grandfather.