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Hyphenation of vicar-general

How to hyphenate vicar-general

Because it is a word with a single syllable, vicar-general is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

vicar-general
Syllables Count
1
Characters Count
13
Words Count
2
Characters without spaces Count
13
Haphenation done based on the Knuth-Liang word-division algorithm. The computed hyphenation pattern is: vicargeneral

Definitions of vicar-general

vicar-general is defined as:

Definition 1 as noun

  • noun
    An official performing the work of an archdeacon under the bishop.
  • noun
    In the English Church, an officer assisting the bishop, the chancellor of the diocese.

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