English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “seasoning”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for seasoning is sea-son-ing, with 2 possible break points in this result.

US English hyphenation
sea-son-ing
3 segments2 break points
British English pattern result season-ing The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
Wordseasoning
Hyphenationsea-son-ing
Break points2
Part of speechnoun · verb
Pronunciationˈsiːz(ə)nɪŋ
Meaning & usage

What does “seasoning” mean?

seasoning: salt, herbs, or spices added to food to enhance the flavour.

Headwordseasoning
Part of speechnoun · verb
Pronunciationˈsiːz(ə)nɪŋ
1
noun

salt, herbs, or spices added to food to enhance the flavour.

Example: “a dash of lemon juice and seasoning”

Synonyms:
2
noun

the process of adjusting the moisture content of wood to make it more suitable for use as timber.

Example: “the outside may be notably drier in the intermediate stages of seasoning”

3
verb

add salt, herbs, pepper, or other spices to (food).

Example: “season the soup to taste with salt and pepper”

Synonyms:
flavour spice add flavouring to add salt/pepper to add spices/herbs to add zing to pep up
4
verb

make (wood) suitable for use as timber by adjusting its moisture content to that of the environment in which it will be used.

Example: “I collect and season most of my wood”

Word breaks

How “seasoning” is split

sea·son·ing

For US English, the hyphenation result is sea-son-ing. This gives 2 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns season-ing.

Quick answers

Questions about “seasoning”

How do you hyphenate “seasoning”?

In the US-English result used here, seasoning is hyphenated as sea-son-ing.

Where can “seasoning” break at the end of a line?

The returned US pattern contains 2 possible break points.

What does “seasoning” mean?

salt, herbs, or spices added to food to enhance the flavour.

Can you use “seasoning” in a sentence?

“a dash of lemon juice and seasoning”

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