Definitions for hyphenates

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hyphenates hy·phen·ate

Spelling: [verb hahy-fuh-neyt; adjective, noun Hyphenates is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 490 anagrams from letters in hyphenates (aeehhnpsty).

Definitions for hyphenates

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 hyphenates

First recorded in 1850-55; hyphen + -ate¹

Examples for hyphenates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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