Hyphenation of oldwife

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

old-wife

Definitions of oldwife:

1.	Tropical Atlantic fish
2.	A common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States

Synonyms of oldwife:

noun	queen triggerfish, Bessy cerca, oldwench, Balistes vetula, triggerfish
noun	old squaw, Clangula hyemalis, sea duck

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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.