multihyphenate
multihyphenate noun: a person with a hyphenated profession e.g. singer-songwriter, actor-director, but especially a person with several such roles.
Noun
multihyphenate (plural multihyphenates)
- A person with a hyphenated profession e.g. singer-songwriter, actor-director, but especially a person with several such roles.
- Interviewees, including the scientist Richard Sternberg, claim that questioning Darwinism led to their expulsion from the scientific fold […], while our genial audience surrogate, the actor and multihyphenate Ben Stein, nods sympathetically.2008 April 18, Jeannette Catsoulis, “Resentment Over Darwin Evolves Into a Documentary”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- He’d also submitted the first proposals for a collaboration with his fellow Nordic multihyphenate Björk, a supersize restaging of her album “Medúlla.”2014 June 5, Heather Corcoran, “Henrik Vibskov, Fashion's Renaissance Man, Showcases His Fine Art”, in T Magazine
Forms of multihyphenate
| plural | multihyphenates |
|---|---|
| alternative form | multi-hyphenate |
Origin of multihyphenate
From multi- + hyphenate.
Questions about multihyphenate
- What does multihyphenate mean?
- Multihyphenate means a person with a hyphenated profession e.g. singer-songwriter, actor-director, but especially a person with several such roles.
- What part of speech is multihyphenate?
- Multihyphenate is a noun.
- What is the plural of multihyphenate?
- The plural of multihyphenate is multihyphenates.
Words near multihyphenate in the dictionary
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