Usually means: Combine words or parts together.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word hyphenate:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. hyphenate: Merriam-Webster
  2. hyphenate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hyphenate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hyphenate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hyphenate: Vocabulary.com
  6. hyphenate: Wordnik
  7. hyphenate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hyphenate: Wiktionary
  9. hyphenate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hyphenate: Dictionary.com
  11. hyphenate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. hyphenate: Rhymezone
  13. hyphenate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. hyphenate: FreeDictionary.org
  15. hyphenate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. hyphenate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. hyphenate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  18. hyphenate: Infoplease Dictionary
  19. hyphenate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hyphenate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hyphenate: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hyphenate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hyphenated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.
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".

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