Hyphenated Definition

hīfə-nātĭd
adjective
Connected or separated with a hyphen.
Webster's New World
Of or pertaining to a citizen of a country who is identified with the ethnic group or nationality of that citizen's forebears.
A hyphenated American.
Webster's New World

Of a person, considered to have more than one nationality or ethnicity (such as French-Canadian, Afro-Argentine, etc.).

"[The Community Newspaper] is one of the many symbolic emblems that stand for the other half of the hyphenated American’s identity." Hyphenated Americans Must Look At Their Mirror -- The Community Newspaper -- To Do What Is Right, October 28, 2005.
Wiktionary
verb

Simple past tense and past participle of hyphenate.

Compounding the word looked wrong, so I hyphenated it instead.
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Hyphenated Sentence Examples

  • The error depends on how many authors with a hyphenated surname the reference has.

  • TeX wo n't hyphenate a word that's already been hyphenated.

  • In manuscript submissions, we prefer that specific ethnicities are capitalized but not hyphenated.

  • Her family proudly shares the hyphenated last name Utt-Grubb, which is a combination of Kelly and Sam's "maiden" names.

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Words Starting With

HHYHYP

Words Ending With

DEDTED

Unscrambles

hyphenated

Words Starting With H and Ending With D

Starts With H & Ends With DStarts With HY & Ends With DStarts With H & Ends With ED

Word Length

10 Letter Words10 Letter Words Starting With H10 Letter Words Ending With D