English

Verb

hyphenated

1. simple past tense and past participle of hyphenate

   Compounding the word looked wrong, so I hyphenated it instead.

Adjective

hyphenated ‎(comparative more hyphenated, superlative most hyphenated)

1. Written with a hyphen.

   Some dictionaries list hyphenated words as though they contained no punctuation.

2. Of a person, considered to have more than one nationality or ethnicity (such as French-Canadian, Afro-Argentine, etc.).

   "[The Community Newspaper] is one of the many symbolic emblems that stand for the other half of the hyphenated American’s identity." Hyphenated Americans Must Look At Their Mirror -- The Community Newspaper -- To Do What Is Right, October 28, 2005.

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