Hyphenation of movement

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

move-ment

Definitions of movement:

1.	A change of position that does not entail a change of location The reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise Movement is a sign of life An impatient move of his hand Gastrointestinal motility
2.	The act of changing location from one place to another Police controlled the motion of the crowd The movement of people from the farms to the cities His move put him directly in my path
3.	A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
4.	A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals He was a charter member of the movement Politicians have to respect a mass movement He led the national liberation front
5.	A major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata The second movement is slow and melodic
6.	A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end He supported populist campaigns They worked in the cause of world peace The team was ready for a drive toward the pennant The movement to end slavery Contributed to the war effort
7.	An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object The cinema relies on apparent motion The succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement
8.	A euphemism for defecation He had a bowel movement
9.	A general tendency to change (as of opinion) Not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book A broad movement of the electorate to the right
10.	The driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock) It was an expensive watch with a diamond movement
11.	The act of changing the location of something The movement of cargo onto the vessel

Synonyms of movement:

noun	motion, move, motility, change
noun	motion, happening, occurrence, natural event
noun	motion, move, change
noun	social movement, front, social group
noun	musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music
noun	campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort, venture
noun	apparent motion, motion, apparent movement, optical illusion
noun	bowel movement, bm, defecation, laxation, shitting
noun	drift, trend, inclination, disposition, tendency
noun	action, action mechanism
noun	change

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.