Multihyphenate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Multihyphenate is a noun meaning A person with a hyphenated profession e.g. singer-songwriter, actor-director, but especially a person with several such roles.
Meaning
A person with a hyphenated profession e.g. singer-songwriter, actor-director, but especially a person with several such roles.
Example Sentences
I find the biggest frustration for most when it comes to being a multihyphenate is the fact that there is no blueprint.
He’d also submitted the first proposals for a collaboration with his fellow Nordic multihyphenate Björk, a supersize restaging of her album “Medúlla.”
Interviewees, including the scientist Richard Sternberg, claim that questioning Darwinism led to their expulsion from the scientific fold […], while our genial audience surrogate, the actor and multihyphenate Ben Stein, nods sympathetically.
Afterward, Diana Oh took the New Year’s Eve sex party as a sign. Just over a year ago, this multi-hyphenate artist rang in 2018 so near the Bushwick Starr theater in Brooklyn that she wondered, when she got the address, if the secret party was actually at the theater.
Word Forms
- multihyphenates
- multi-hyphenate
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hyphenate, multiprofessional, biprofessional, multinstrumentalist, multiinstrumentalist, multi-instrumentalist.
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