Hyphenation of advocates

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

ad-vo-cates

Definitions of advocates:

1.	A person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
2.	A lawyer who pleads cases in court
3.	Push for something The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day
4.	Speak, plead, or argue in favor of The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house

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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.