hyphenate

Meanings

Verb

• 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.
• to join words or syllables with a hyphen.

Noun

• 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".

Related

Similar words

• person

Origin

• hyphen + -ate