Hyphenation of CONSTRUCTION

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word CONSTRUCTION? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

CON-STRUC-TION

Definitions of CONSTRUCTION:

1.	The act of constructing something During the construction we had to take a detour His hobby was the building of boats
2.	A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner
3.	The creation of a construct The process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
4.	A thing constructed A complex entity constructed of many parts The structure consisted of a series of arches She wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons
5.	Drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem The assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem
6.	An interpretation of a text or action They put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct
7.	The commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones Their main business is home construction Workers in the building trades

Synonyms of CONSTRUCTION:

noun	building, creating from raw materials
noun	building, commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
noun	structure, artifact, artefact
noun	grammatical construction, expression, constituent, grammatical constituent
noun	mental synthesis, thinking, thought, cerebration, intellection, mentation
noun	twist, interpretation
noun	mathematical process, mathematical operation, operation

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.