hyphenated
of, relating to, or designating a person, group, or organization of mixed origin or identity: an Irish-American club and other hyphenated organizations.
Origin of hyphenated
1Other words from hyphenated
- un·hy·phen·at·ed, adjective
Words Nearby hyphenated
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How to use hyphenated in a sentence
Theirs is the journey that cleared the path for me and the millions of successful, educated, hyphenated-Indian women like me.
Focused on the Indian need for appearances, she de-hyphenated her visit from Pakistan and bracketed it with ASEAN.
Trevor says that if he is to be hyphenated, he prefers Protestant-Irish to Anglo-Irish.
Obama presented himself as an American individual first, not, as Teddy Roosevelt would say, "a hyphenated American."
Most of the literary work of these two men was done jointly, hence their hyphenated signature.
Contes Franais | Douglas Labaree Buffum
The word withdraw or withdraw was inconsistently hyphenated; it was left as printed, and line-end hyphens were retained.
The Earliest Arithmetics in English | AnonymousThe following words occur with equal frequency in both the hyphenated and unhyphenated forms.
Flight From Tomorrow | Henry Beam PiperThis text contains inconsistencies in spelling, accented characters and hyphenated words.
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora | Edward EdwardsThose compound words which are hyphenated only on line breaks are rendered using modern usage.
The Sea Shore | William S. Furneaux
British Dictionary definitions for hyphenated
/ (ˈhaɪfəˌneɪtɪd) /
containing or linked with a hyphen
mainly US having a nationality denoted by a hyphenated word, as in American-Irish
mainly US denoting something, such as a professional career, that consists of two elements, as in singer-songwriter
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