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Etymology

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FromLate Latin, fromAncient Greekὑφέν(huphén,“together”), contracted fromὑφ’ ἕν(huph’ hén,“under one”), fromὑπό(hupó,“under”) +ἕν(hén,“one”), neuter ofεἷς(heîs,“one”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hyphen (pluralhyphens)

  2. The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.
    • 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey,Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page56:
      As the proud owner of my very ownhyphen in a lovingly crafted surname, I have an especial soft spot for this most confusing of punctuation marks.
  3. (figuratively) Something which links two things of greater significance than itself.
    • 2019 June 20, Noof Aldaheri, Gustavo Guzman, and Heather Stewart, “Tales of the Unknown and Entanglement”, in Prof. Anthony Stacey, editor,ECRM 2019 18th European Conference on Research Methods in Business and Management, Academic Conferences and publishing limited,→ISBN, page26:
      Cunliffe and Karunanayake (2013) developed Fine's notion to introduce potentialhyphen spaces that are deeply implicated and reciprocally influential in relationships between researchers and the researched.
    1. An enclosed walkway or passage that connects two buildings.
      • 1997, Peter Beney,The Majesty of Colonial Williamsburg, page156:
        Thehyphens were added, joining the structures into one building, which now measures just over two hundred feet long.
      • 2010, Mary L. Kwas,A Pictorial History of Arkansas's Old State House:
        Construction details for thehyphens, or "connecting wings" as they were called by the contractors, were included in the contractors' specifications, as follows:
      • 2012, James M Cain,The Cocktail Waitress:
        Those were the “hyphens,” the passageways that connected the wings of the mansion to its center.
  4. Someone who belongs to a marginalized subgroup, and can therefore described by a hyphenated term, such as "German-American", "female-academic", etc.
    • 1916,The American Monthly - Volume 3, page221:
      Tab has been kept on quite a number of members who rapturously applauded when that part of the message in which thehyphens were attacked was read by the President.
    • 2004, Bonnie G. Smith, Beth Hutchison,Gendering Disability, page61:
      Sign language interpreters fascinate me because their cultural space, "working thehyphens" as Michelle Fine (1994) would call it, and performing in the kind of hybrid third space that Homi Bhabha (1994) has written about resonates often with my own "hard-of-hearing" doubly hyphenated existence in both deaf and hearing worlds.
    • 2013, Kevin O’Keefe,A Thousand Deadlines:
      A leading Republican paper also had, on the eve of the convention, focused attention on this issue by remarking that Hughes was “designated by theHyphens as their agent to punish Mr. Wilson for his partial refusal to comply with Potsdam orders.

Usage notes

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Because the original symbol "-" (technically thehyphen-minus) covered usages aside from hyphenation there have been additional subsequent symbols created for hyphenation needs. They include the "‐" (hyphen),‑ (non-breaking hyphen) and the non-visiblesoft hyphen.

Derived terms

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Translations

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symbol used to join words or to indicate a word has been split

Verb

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hyphen (third-person singular simple presenthyphens,present participlehyphening,simple past and past participlehyphened)

  1. (transitive, dated) Toseparate orpunctuate with ahyphen; tohyphenate.

Conjunction

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hyphen

  1. Used to emphasize the coordinating function usually indicated by the punctuation "-".
    • 1945, Robert Gessner,Youth is the time:
      You are sitting at the wrong table, if I may be so bold, among the misguided who believe in the mass murder of mentalities, otherwise known as the liberal artshyphen vocational traininghyphen education.
    • 1950,Cleveland Amory,Home town:
      Ax was now a Hollywood hyphenated man. An actorhyphen directorhyphen writer.
    • 1983, Linda Crawford,Vanishing acts:
      He described himself as a poet-composer and actually said the word hyphen when he did so: "I'm a poethyphen composer.
    • 1983, David S. Reiss,M*A*S*H: the exclusive, inside story of TV's most popular show:
      He is an actor (hyphen) writer (hyphen) director. In the fifth year of the series Alan Alda added another title to his growing list — that of creative consultant.
    • 2007, Stephen M. Murphy,What If Holden Caulfield Went to Law School?, page65:
      One reason he has avoided reading legal thrillers is that “they seem really to have been written by lawyer-hyphen-authors.”

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See also

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Punctuation

Further reading

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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hyphen m (pluralhyphens)

  1. Old symbol with the shape of a curved stroke, formerly used in French instead of the modern hyphen, with the same function
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