Hyphenation of Occident

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

Oc-ci-dent

Definitions of Occident:

1.	The countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America
2.	The hemisphere that includes North America and South America

Synonyms of Occident:

noun	West, Occident, region
noun	western hemisphere, New World, hemisphere

Last hyphenations of this language

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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.