Hyphenation of background

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word background ? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

back-ground

Definitions of background :

1.	A person's social heritage: previous experience or training He is a lawyer with a sports background
2.	The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground He posed her against a background of rolling hills
3.	Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem The embassy filled him in on the background of the incident
4.	Extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured They got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals
5.	Relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation When the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background
6.	The state of the environment in which a situation exists You can't do that in a university setting
7.	(computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
8.	Scenery hung at back of stage
9.	Understate the importance or quality of He played down his royal ancestry

Synonyms of background :

noun	inheritance, heritage
noun	ground, view, aspect, prospect, scene, vista, panorama
noun	background knowledge, information
noun	background signal, noise, interference, disturbance
noun	accompaniment, concomitant, co-occurrence
noun	setting, scope, environment
noun	desktop, screen background, screen, CRT screen
noun	backdrop, backcloth, scenery, scene
verb	play down, downplay, stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate

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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.