单词 | hyphenated |
释义 | hyphenatedadj. 1. Consisting of two (or more) parts joined by a hyphen. ΘΠ society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [adjective] > hyphen hyphenic1851 hyphenated1852 1852 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. V. 124/2 The Germans giving the hyphenated title thus. 1893 E. Coues Lewis & Clark's Exped. I. 66 In the text..the name usually stands Council-bluff, in one hyphenated word. 2. Applied to persons (or, by extension, their activities) born in one country but naturalized citizens of another, their nationality being designated by a hyphenated form, e.g. Anglo-American, Irish-American; hence, to a person whose patriotic allegiance is assumed to be divided. Also in extended use. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > national of a country > [adjective] > of mixed nationality hyphenated1893 1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 386/2 Hyphenated American, a naturalised citizen, as German-Americans, Irish-Americans, and the like. 1900 Daily News 15 Aug. 3/1 My opponents were of the hyphenated variety—Dutch-Americans and Irish-Americans predominating. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 3 Jan. 3/2 American politics, where men who call themselves Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Dutch-Americans, and so on, are contemptuously referred to as ‘hyphenated Americans’. 1907 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Nov. 410 Some of these hyphenated American journals. 1915 Literary Digest 4 Sept. 462/1 Hyphenated residents will continue to insist that American newspapers should be strictly neutral. 1948 Manch. Guardian Weekly 3 June 7/1 ‘Hyphenated Americans’— undigested immigrant stock. 1965 B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular i. 37 It was thought that, with the whole of western Europe under Nazi domination, hyphenated Americans might provide recruits for work in occupied territory. 1973 Times 17 Oct. 6/8 This did not go down well with the Greek community here [i.e. in the U.S.], or with other groups of ‘hyphenated Americans’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < adj.1852 |
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