English Explanatory Dictionary

hyphenism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The use of hyphenated terms to describe people's identities, e.g. in Irish-American.

Word forms

hyphenism hyphenisms

Etymology

From hyphen + -ism.

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