Hyphenation of governed

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

gov-erned

Definitions of governed:

1.	The body of people who are citizens of a particular government Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed--Declaration of Independence

Synonyms of governed:

noun	citizenry, people

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.