Hyphenation of deaconess

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

dea-coness

Definitions of deaconess:

1.	A woman deacon

Synonyms of deaconess:

noun	deacon, Protestant deacon

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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