Hyphenation of hostage

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

hostage

Definitions of hostage:

1.	A prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms

Synonyms of hostage:

noun	surety, prisoner, captive

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.