| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | hy·phen |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  h  f n |
| NOUN: | A punctuation mark ( - ) used between the parts of a compound word or name or between the syllables of a word, especially when divided at the end of a line of text. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: hy·phened, hy·phen·ing, hy·phens
To hyphenate. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin, from Greek huphen, a sign indicating a compound or two words which are to be read as one, from huph' hen, in one : hupo, under; see hypo– + hen, neuter of heis, one; see sem-1 in Appendix I.
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