Hyphenation of patriarch

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

pa-tri-arch

Definitions of patriarch:

1.	Title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)
2.	The male head of family or tribe
3.	Any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
4.	A man who is older and higher in rank than yourself

Synonyms of patriarch:

noun	Patriarch, spiritual leader
noun	paterfamilias, man, adult male, head of household
noun	forefather, father, sire
noun	old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah

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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.