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Unhyphenated
adj, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Lacking a hyphen. not-comparable
"The word cooperation is unhyphenated, though some also spell it as co-operation."
- 2 Of people, belonging to a single ethnicity or nationality. Canada, US, not-comparable
"... when we shall recognize in our press and at the ballot box no votes but American votes, and no citizens but simply unhyphenated American citizens; when we shall insist that every man who places a ballot in our ballot box shall be able to read that ballot in the language of Lincoln and Grant, we shall have reached the hour when we may begin the most momentous and delicate task ever set before a people—the creation of a great nation out of the fragments of many diverse and even hostile nationalities."
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of unhyphenate form-of, participle, past
Etymology
Etymology 1
From unhyphenate + -ed.
Etymology 2
From un- + hyphenated.
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