hyphennoun [ C ]
uk/ˈhaɪ.fən/us/ˈhaɪ.fən/B2 the symbol -, used to join two words together, or to show that a word has been divided into two parts at the end of one line and the beginning of the next:
There are hyphens in "well-to-do".
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- Where should I put the hyphen to break the word 'authority'?
- There is a hyphen between the two names.
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Punctuation
- ampersand
- apostrophe
- asterisk
- caron
- cedilla
- dash
- ditto
- ellipsis
- grave (accent)
- guillemet
- hyphenate
- lower case
- parentheses
- period
- punctuation
- punctuation mark
- question mark
- quotation marks
- tilde
- upper case
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