Meaning

simple past and past participle of unhyphenate.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of unhyphenate
2. Lacking a hyphen.
3. (Canada, US) Of people, belonging to a single ethnicity or nationality.

Example Sentences

The word cooperation is unhyphenated, though some also spell it as co-operation.

For Pennsylvania yields to no State in the courage and virility of her sons—plain, unhyphenated Americans, not yet pushed by invaders off the soil; loyal men, whose fathers gave their blood like water for the Union.

First of all, and probably greatest of all in view of most present-day writers, they were "unhyphenated!" This is indeed wonderful! And again, most wonderful! Unhyphenated! So interesting a fact as this, and one so eminently desirable, invites most critical investigation, for the very breath of suggestion insinuates at once that "hyphenism" and "Americanism" are by the very nature of things contradictory, and that "hyphenism" must needs be on a par with, if not exactly the same as, treason. We are therefore very much interested in the new fact that Pennsylvania's glory lies in the giving of "unhyphenated" Americans to the new nation born of the travails of the Revolution.

Some believe it is an expression of Hebrew-Americanism, others think it is an expressio of Negro-Americanism, still other's think it is pure American, unhyphenated.

2007, Herb Duerr, The Unhyphenated Canuck: Reflections and Confessions of an Opinionated Immigrant, iUniverse.com The Unhyphenated Canuck: Reflections and Confessions of an Opinionated Immigrant (title)

... when we shall recognize in our press and at the ballot box no votes but American votes, and no citizens but simply unhyphenated American citizens; when we shall insist that every man who places a ballot in our ballot box shall be able to read that ballot in the language of Lincoln and Grant, we shall have reached the hour when we may begin the most momentous and delicate task ever set before a people—the creation of a great nation out of the fragments of many diverse and even hostile nationalities.

The concept that Canada was "one nation" and its citizens "unhyphenated", in Diefenbaker's words, had to be set aside.

The score for Unhyphenated white men, 36.0, falls just about midway between all white men and black men; the mean prestige score for Unhyphenated white women is 33.6, is considerably closer to the level for black women than all white women.

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When Should You Use Unhyphenated?

Use unhyphenated when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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