the mark ( - ) used to join two words together to make a new one, as in back-up, or to show that a word has been divided between the end of one line and the beginning of the next:
Is there a hyphen in post-mortem?
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hyphen is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is hyphen a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, hyphen is tagged as noun.
Does hyphen appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — hyphen appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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