Word.ws English Dictionary

multihyphenates

multihyphenates is the plural of multihyphenate.

Meaning of multihyphenate

Noun

multihyphenate (plural multihyphenates)

  1. 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

Questions about multihyphenates

What is multihyphenates the plural of?
Multihyphenates is the plural of multihyphenate.

Words near multihyphenates in the dictionary

  1. multihypergraph
  2. multihypergraphs
  3. multihyphal
  4. multihyphenate
  5. multihyphenated
  6. multihyphenates
  7. multihyphened
  8. multihypothesis
  9. multiindustrial
  10. multiindustry
  11. multiinfarct

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: multihyphenates (page history and authors); multihyphenate (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “multihyphenates.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/multihyphenates. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.