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hyphenators

hyphenators is the plural of hyphenator.

Meaning of hyphenator

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

Questions about hyphenators

What is hyphenators the plural of?
Hyphenators is the plural of hyphenator.

Words near hyphenators in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hyphenators (page history and authors); hyphenator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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