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hyphenator

hyphenator noun: one who, or that which, hyphenates.

Noun

hyphenator (plural hyphenators)

  1. One who, or that which, hyphenates.
    • The greatest hyphenator ever was Shakespeare (or Shak-speare in some contemporary spellings) because he was so busy adding new words, many of them compounds, to English: “sea-change,” “leap-frog,” “bare-faced,” “fancy-free.”2007 October 7, Charles Mcgrath, “Death-Knell. Or Death Knell.”, in New York Times

Forms of hyphenator

pluralhyphenators

Origin of hyphenator

From hyphenate + -or.

Questions about hyphenator

What does hyphenator mean?
Hyphenator means one who, or that which, hyphenates.
What part of speech is hyphenator?
Hyphenator is a noun.
What is the plural of hyphenator?
The plural of hyphenator is hyphenators.

Words near hyphenator in the dictionary

  1. hyphenated Americans
  2. hyphenates
  3. hyphenating
  4. hyphenation
  5. hyphenations
  6. hyphenator
  7. hyphenators
  8. hyphened
  9. hyphenic
  10. hyphening
  11. hyphenisation

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