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hyphenated

[ hahy-fuh-ney-tid ]

adjective

, Informal.
  1. of, relating to, or designating a person, group, or organization of mixed origin or identity:

    an Irish-American club and other hyphenated organizations.



hyphenated

/ ˈhaɪfəˌneɪtɪd /

adjective

  1. containing or linked with a hyphen
  2. having a nationality denoted by a hyphenated word, as in American-Irish
  3. denoting something, such as a professional career, that consists of two elements, as in singer-songwriter


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Other Words From

  • un·hyphen·ated adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hyphenated1

First recorded in 1890–95; hyphenate + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

However, the owners of hyphenated names should be tolerant when it comes to mixing up the order or leaving out parts.

If it’s not in there, pick which form—closed, hyphenated, or open—you think most clearly communicates what you are trying to say.

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.

The word withdraw or withdraw was inconsistently hyphenated; it was left as printed, and line-end hyphens were retained.

The following words occur with equal frequency in both the hyphenated and unhyphenated forms.

This text contains inconsistencies in spelling, accented characters and hyphenated words.

Those compound words which are hyphenated only on line breaks are rendered using modern usage.

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