Definition of "unhyphenated" [unhyphenated]

• Simple past tense and past participle of unhyphenate. (verb)
• Lacking a hyphen. (adjective)

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• "They begin American history too late -- with the discovery of America -- and they do not awaken, as they might, the just pride of race in the "unhyphenated" American boy."
• "Thirty years have passed since John Diefenbakerwho appointed the first woman to a Canadian cabinet and the first native Indian to the Senate, whose government was supported by the first black Canadian and the first Canadian of Chinese origin ever elected to the House of Commons, who appointed a Jew to be Governor of the Bank of Canada at a time when Canadian banking was a closed shop to Jews, who gave native Canadians the right to vote for the first time, who always fought for the underdog and gave us the Canadian Bill of Rights-urged us to accept "unhyphenated" Canadianism."
• "The Modern Jazz Quartet is often described as the greatest and most enduring of the handful of ensembles that tried to combine jazz and classical music, yet its actual achievement was that it played hard, swinging, unhyphenated jazz—thoroughly steeped in the blues—with the clean articulation and virtuosic musicianship of the great chamber groups."