Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a hyphen.
- adjective Often Offensive Of or relating to naturalized citizens or their descendants or culture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective United by hyphens; hyphened.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hyphenate . - adjective Written with a
hyphen . - adjective Of a person, considered to have more than one
nationality orethnicity (such asFrench-Canadian ,Afro-Argentine , etc.).
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Examples
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It is only when self-serving bottom-line profit-margin hyphenated-a$$holes attempt to extract their pound of flesh that we end up "needing" social communities.
Just another FaceBook in the crowd (2) William "Papa" Meloney 2007
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Since Heidegger often writes the word hyphenated, An-wesen, that means that it is to be understood in its root meaning.
enowning enowning 2008
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Since Heidegger often writes the word hyphenated, An-wesen, that means that it is to be understood in its root meaning.
Archive 2008-01-01 enowning 2008
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Although in theory, since a 'na does swear absolute obedience and perfect fidelity, there is no need to acknowledge even the greatest of such service, the Sandemans are realists; if a' na gives greater service or does a deed more heroic than may be reasonably expected, his thakur will have the tattoo circled and allow his 'na to use his name hyphenated with the' na's own.
Concordance A Terran Empire concordance Ann Wilson
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Segall asked Johnson about poems O'Ryan allegedly wrote about the athlete, some of which had her name hyphenated with O'Ryan's.
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Yet she keeps her name hyphenated to her ex's name.
Thestar.com - Home Page Ellie 2010
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Yet she keeps her name hyphenated to her ex's name.
Thestar.com - Home Page Ellie 2010
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Some of the final plot turns strain credulity, and Flynn has a thing for coining hyphenated words.
VinceKeenan.com 2009
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Since you started the whole stereo-typing thing is that word hyphenated?
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He also refers to Obama by a two-word hyphenated term beginning with the word "Mother."
bilby commented on the word hyphenated
Nope.
April 10, 2019