hyphenate
/ˈhaɪf(ə)ˌneɪt/ verb, noun
Forms hyphenates hyphenating hyphenated
- verb (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.
- verb (transitive) to join words or syllables with a hyphen. “you have to hyphenate his surname as it's double-barrelled”
- noun A person or object with multiple duties, abilities or characteristics, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".
- noun A person whose ethnicity is a multi-word hyphenated term, such as "African-American".
Synonyms
Etymology
From hyphen + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
From hyphen + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “hyphenate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details