Hyphenation of mendicant

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

men-di-cant

Definitions of mendicant:

1.	A male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
2.	A pauper who lives by begging
3.	Practicing beggary Mendicant friars

Synonyms of mendicant:

adj	beseeching
noun	friar, religious
noun	beggar, pauper, poor man

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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.