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symbol · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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symbol

Meaning 1

Used in a compound term when the constituent parts are already hyphenated.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • high-priority–high-pressure tasks

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2

symbol

Meaning 2

Used to hide letters

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • G–d for God

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3

symbol

Meaning 3

Used to connect compound terms with the sense of "to" or to show a relationship

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The Boston–Washington race
  • blood–brain barrier

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symbol

Meaning 4

Used to connect a spaced or hyphenated term.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1998: John Stephens and Robyn McCallum, Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children’s Literature, page 182 (Routledge; →ISBN Argent the capitalist, Leeson implies, much more overtly than was possible for Stevenson, who lacked the benefit of hindsight which informs Leeson’s late–twentieth-century text, that capitalism is a form of piracy.

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History

Etymology

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