Hyphenation of collect

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

col-lect

Definitions of collect:

1.	A short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
2.	Get or gather together I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis She rolled up a small fortune
3.	Call for and obtain payment of We collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts He collected the rent
4.	Assemble or get together Gather some stones Pull your thoughts together
5.	Get or bring together Accumulate evidence
6.	Gather or collect You can get the results on Monday She picked up the children at the day care center They pick up our trash twice a week
7.	Payable by the recipient on delivery A collect call The letter came collect A COD parcel
8.	Make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays Call collect Send a package collect

Synonyms of collect:

adj	cod, due, owed
noun	prayer, petition, orison
verb	roll up, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard, store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away
verb	take in, take
verb	gather, garner, pull together
verb	pull in, roll up, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard
verb	pick up, gather up, call for, get, acquire

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.