See also dash This is a punctuation mark used in two main ways. First, we might use a ‘link hyphen’ to join words or parts of words together to create a new word: ‘spare-part’, ‘after-hours’ or...

// n. A conventional symbol for marking the bound end of a bound form, as in the prefix pre- or the suffix...

A hyphen ( ‐ ) is a punctuation mark. It is used both to join words and to separate syllables. It is often confused with the dashes ( –, —, ― ), which are longer and have different functions, and with the minus sign ( − ) which is...