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• n  a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
• v  divide or connect with a hyphen
  hyphenate these words and names

• Use a hyphen to connect two or more words that function as a unit to describe a noun.
• At 17 letters plus a hyphen, Sammataro-Hutchins is a bit much.
• Minnesota is a strong Farmer-Labor State, but of late the Farmer-Labor Party has been straining at its internal hyphen.

• dash
• hyphenate

News & Articles

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• Live Wire: Spelling frequently guided by AP style
  Q: You had a recent item about mopeds. You should know that "moped" is one word. There's no hyphen. - M.D., Fayetteville
  June 11, 2013 - The Fayetteville Observer
• Live Wire: Spelling frequently guided by AP style
  Q: You had a recent item about mopeds. You should know that "moped" is one word. There's no hyphen. - M.D., Fayetteville
  June 11, 2013 - The Fayetteville Observer

Quotes

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• Vinton Cerf in PC World
  This is a big change, because for the last 30 years the only thing you could use was Latin characters, and just the letters A though Z, digits 0 to 9 and a hyphen,said Cerf.
• Woodrow Wilson in Los Angeles Times
  I cannot say too often - any man who carries a hyphen about with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this republic,Wilson said in 1919.
• Srinivasa Ramanujan in The Hindu
  AK Ramanujan described himself as the perpetual "hyphen in Indian-English", living between two or more languages, two countries, two disciplines.