English Explanatory Dictionary

word break

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A point in writing where a word is split so that part of it is relegated to the next line, typically at the end of a syllable and marked with a hyphen: an intersyllabic division.
  2. A word boundary, as operationally defined by either linguistics or computing.

Word forms

word break word breaks wordbreak word-break

Etymology

From word + break.

Related words

line break page break paragraph break section break hyphenation
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