Hyphenation of excavations

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word excavations? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

ex-ca-va-tions

Definitions of excavations:

1.	The act of digging There's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton
2.	The site of an archeological exploration They set up camp next to the dig
3.	A hole in the ground made by excavating
4.	The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth

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.