Hyphenation of astern

Are you trying to hyphenate astern? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.

astern

Definitions of astern:

1.	Stern foremost or backward The steamer went astern at half speed
2.	At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane Stow the luggage aft Ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft The captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about
3.	(of a ship or an airplane) behind We dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla
4.	And she laid comfortably on the ebb tide

Synonyms of astern:

adv	aft, abaft

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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.