word division

1. 1.

   division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page

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Questions about word division

What does word division mean?

word division means "division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page".

What is another word for word division?

Close synonyms include hyphenation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is word division a common word?

word division is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.