Hyphenation of designates

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

des-ig-nates

Definitions of designates:

1.	Assign a name or title to
2.	Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
3.	Indicate a place, direction, person, or thing Either spatially or figuratively I showed the customer the glove section He pointed to the empty parking space He indicated his opponents
4.	Decree or designate beforehand She was destined to become a great pianist
5.	Design or destine She was intended to become the director
6.	Appointed but not yet installed in office

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.