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Meaning of hyphenator | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

One who, or that which, hyphenates.

Examples

“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.””

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Hyphened Hyphening hyphenisation hyphenism hyphenitis hyphenization