Hyphenation of government

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

gov-ern-ment

Definitions of government:

1.	The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit The government reduced taxes The matter was referred to higher authorities
2.	The act of governing Exercising authority Regulations for the governing of state prisons He had considerable experience of government
3.	(government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed Tyrannical government
4.	The study of government of states and other political units

Synonyms of government:

noun	authorities, regime, polity
noun	system, system of rules
noun	governing, governance, government activity, social control
noun	politics, political science, social science

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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.