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nounhyphenator (plural hyphenators)
plural hyphenators
- One who, or that which, hyphenates.
The greatest hyphenator ever was Shakespeare (or Shak-speare in some contemporary spellings) because he was so busy adding new words, many of them compounds, to English: “sea-change,” “leap-frog,” “bare-faced,” “fancy-free.”
2007 October 7, Charles Mcgrath, “Death-Knell. Or Death Knell.”, in New York Times
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APA
hyphenator. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyphenator
MLA
“hyphenator.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyphenator. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hyphenator,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyphenator.
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