Hyphenator
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hyphenator is a noun meaning One who, or that which, hyphenates.
Meaning
One who, or that which, hyphenates.
Example Sentences
The greatest hyphenator ever was Shakespeare (or Shak-speare in some contemporary spellings) because he was so busy adding new words, many of them compounds, to English: “sea-change,” “leap-frog,” “bare-faced,” “fancy-free.”
Word Forms
- hyphenators
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hyphenate, hyphenitis, hyphenation, hyphenism, hyphen, dehyphenation.
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