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Hyphenated - What does it mean?

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hyphenated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (hyphenate)
    • Compounding the word looked wrong, so I hyphenated it instead.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Written with a hyphen.
    • Some dictionaries list hyphenated words as though they contained no punctuation.
  • Of a person, considered to have more than one nationality or ethnicity (such as French-Canadian, Afro-Argentine, etc.).
    • "[The Community Newspaper] is one of the many symbolic emblems that stand for the other half of the hyphenated American’s identity. " Hyphenated Americans Must Look At Their Mirror -- The Community Newspaper -- To Do What Is Right, October 28, 2005.

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.