Meaning

2 senses
  1. A person or object with multiple duties, abilities or characteristics, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".

  2. A person whose ethnicity is a multi-word hyphenated term, such as "African-American".

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Which is correct: solid, open, or hyphenated?

    ruКак правильно: слитно, раздельно или через дефис? — marafon

    deWie ist es richtig: zusammen, getrennt oder mit Bindestrich? — Yorwba

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Forms

plural: hyphenates
Singularhyphenate
Pluralhyphenates

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hyphenate — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto