1. Plural of endash; a typographical dash (–) that is longer than a hyphen but shorter than an em dash, used to indicate ranges, connections, or breaks in thought.
Usage: typography; technical

Examples

• The style guide requires endashes in page ranges, such as 45–67.
• Use endashes to show date ranges: 2020–2023.
• Some writers prefer endashes to connect related clauses—though em dashes work too.
• The editor corrected all the hyphens to endashes in the numerical ranges.
• Endashes are commonly used in academic writing to denote inclusive ranges.