hyphen

A punctuation mark (-) used to join words or parts of words, or to indicate a word break at the end of a line.

• 🇫🇷Signe de ponctuation (-) utilisé pour relier des mots ou des parties de mots, ainsi que pour indiquer la coupure d'un mot en fin de ligne.

1. Punctuation mark B1 formal

   A short horizontal line (-) used to join words or parts of words.

   • Use a hyphen in compound words like 'mother-in-law'.
   • The hyphen is often used to connect two adjectives before a noun.
   • Make sure to place a hyphen between the numbers in a date range.

   🇫🇷trait d'union

• hyphens plural form
• hyphens' possessive plural form
• hyphen's possessive singular form

A verb meaning to join or connect words or syllables with a hyphen.

• 🇫🇷Verbe signifiant relier ou joindre des mots ou des syllabes à l'aide d'un trait d'union.

1. Join with a hyphen B2 formal

   To connect two words or parts of a word using a hyphen.

   • You should hyphenate the compound adjective 'well-known'.
   • The editor decided to hyphen the two words together.
   • In this style guide, we hyphen multi-word terms.

   🇫🇷Joindre par un trait d'union

   Synonymes: hyphenate

   Antonymes: disjoindivideseparate

• hyphened past participle
• hyphened past simple
• hyphening present participle
• hyphens third person singular