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

(transitive) to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules by adding a hyphen on the end of the line. / (transitive) to join words or syllables with a hyphen.

plural of hyphenate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hyphenate

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

simple past tense and past participle of hyphenate

plural of hyphenator

One who, or that which, hyphenates.

present participle of hyphenate

plural of hyphenation