hyphenated

[ hahy-fuh-ney-tid ]

adjectiveInformal.
  1. of, relating to, or designating a person, group, or organization of mixed origin or identity: an Irish-American club and other hyphenated organizations.

Origin of hyphenated

1
First recorded in 1890–95; hyphenate + -ed2

Other words from hyphenated

  • un·hy·phen·at·ed, adjective

Words Nearby hyphenated

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How to use hyphenated in a sentence

  • Obama presented himself as an American individual first, not, as Teddy Roosevelt would say, "a hyphenated American."

    Irrational Obama Exuberance | John Avlon | November 26, 2008 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Most of the literary work of these two men was done jointly, hence their hyphenated signature.

    Contes Franais | Douglas Labaree Buffum
  • The word withdraw or withdraw was inconsistently hyphenated; it was left as printed, and line-end hyphens were retained.

  • The following words occur with equal frequency in both the hyphenated and unhyphenated forms.

    Flight From Tomorrow | Henry Beam Piper
  • This text contains inconsistencies in spelling, accented characters and hyphenated words.

    Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora | Edward Edwards
  • Those compound words which are hyphenated only on line breaks are rendered using modern usage.

    The Sea Shore | William S. Furneaux

British Dictionary definitions for hyphenated

hyphenated

/ (ˈhaɪfəˌneɪtɪd) /


adjective
  1. containing or linked with a hyphen

  2. mainly US having a nationality denoted by a hyphenated word, as in American-Irish

  1. mainly US denoting something, such as a professional career, that consists of two elements, as in singer-songwriter

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