hyphen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.fən/
rhymes: -aɪfən
Forms: form: hyphens
Etymology: From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek ὑφέν (huphén, “together”), contracted from ὑφ’ ἕν (huph’ hén, “under one”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + ἕν (hén, “one”), neuter of εἷς (heîs, “one”).
Senses: examples: text: As the proud owner of my very own hyphen in a lovingly crafted surname, I have an especial soft spot for this most confusing of punctuation marks.
ref: 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 56:
glosses: The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.
examples: text: Cunliffe and Karunanayake (2013) developed Fine's notion to introduce potential hyphen spaces that are deeply implicated and reciprocally influential in relationships between researchers and the researched.
ref: 2019 June 20, Noof Aldaheri, Gustavo Guzman, and Heather Stewart, “Tales of the Unknown and Entanglement”, in Prof. Anthony Stacey, editor, ECRM 2019 18th European Conference on Research Methods in Business and Management, Academic Conferences and publishing limited, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Something which links two things of greater significance than itself.
examples: text: The hyphens were added, joining the structures into one building, which now measures just over two hundred feet long.
ref: 1997, Peter Beney, The Majesty of Colonial Williamsburg, page 156:
text: Construction details for the hyphens, or "connecting wings" as they were called by the contractors, were included in the contractors' specifications, as follows:
ref: 2010, Mary L. Kwas, A Pictorial History of Arkansas's Old State House:
text: Those were the “hyphens,” the passageways that connected the wings of the mansion to its center.
ref: 2012, James M Cain, The Cocktail Waitress:
glosses: Something which links two things of greater significance than itself.
An enclosed walkway or passage that connects two buildings.
examples: text: Tab has been kept on quite a number of members who rapturously applauded when that part of the message in which the hyphens were attacked was read by the President.
ref: 1916, The American Monthly - Volume 3, page 221:
text: Sign language interpreters fascinate me because their cultural space, "working the hyphens" as Michelle Fine (1994) would call it, and performing in the kind of hybrid third space that Homi Bhabha (1994) has written about resonates often with my own "hard-of-hearing" doubly hyphenated existence in both deaf and hearing worlds.
ref: 2004, Bonnie G. Smith, Beth Hutchison, Gendering Disability, page 61:
text: A leading Republican paper also had, on the eve of the convention, focused attention on this issue by remarking that Hughes was “designated by the Hyphens as their agent to punish Mr. Wilson for his partial refusal to comply with Potsdam orders.
ref: 2013, Kevin O’Keefe, A Thousand Deadlines:
glosses: Someone who belongs to a marginalized subgroup, and can therefore described by a hyphenated term, such as "German-American", "female-academic", etc.
Derived terms: hyphenate
hyphenated
hyphenation
hyphenator
hyphenic
hyphenism
hyphenitis
hyphenize
hyphenless
hyphen-minus
mishyphen
soft hyphen
suspended hyphen
unhyphenate
work the hyphens