English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “souvenir”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for souvenir is sou-venir, with 1 possible break point in this result.

US English hyphenation
sou-venir
2 segments1 break points
British English pattern result souven-ir The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
Wordsouvenir
Hyphenationsou-venir
Break points1
Part of speechnoun · verb
Pronunciationˌsuːvəˈnɪə
Meaning & usage

What does “souvenir” mean?

souvenir: a thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event.

Headwordsouvenir
Part of speechnoun · verb
Pronunciationˌsuːvəˈnɪə
1
noun

a thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event.

Example: “the recording provides a souvenir of a great production”

2
verb

take as a memento.

Example: “many parts of the aircraft have been souvenired”

Word breaks

How “souvenir” is split

sou·venir

For US English, the hyphenation result is sou-venir. This gives 1 possible line-break point in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns souven-ir.

Quick answers

Questions about “souvenir”

How do you hyphenate “souvenir”?

In the US-English result used here, souvenir is hyphenated as sou-venir.

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

The returned US pattern contains 1 possible break point.

What does “souvenir” mean?

a thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event.

Can you use “souvenir” in a sentence?

“the recording provides a souvenir of a great production”

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