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macron
[ mey-kron, mak-ron ]
noun
- a horizontal line used as a diacritic over a vowel to indicate that it has a long sound or other specified pronunciation, as (ā) in fate (fāt).
macron
/ ˈmækrɒn /
noun
- a diacritical mark (¯) placed over a letter, used in prosody, in the orthography of some languages, and in several types of phonetic respelling systems, to represent a long vowel
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of macron1
Example Sentences
Many experts and voters had predicted a Macron–Le Pen matchup in next year’s presidential second-round runoff.
PARIS — At 36, Emmanuel Macron, France's new Economy Minister, is remarkably young.
Macron excelled at France's elite schools, including the civil-servant powerhouse Ecole Nationale d'Administration.
Precocious even in his private life, Macron does not have children of his own but, at 36, he is a grandfather.
Combinations such as (y with breve and macron) or (o with under-dot and macron) may not display as intended in all browsers.
This book contains Unicode characters, such as c (c with combining macron).
Pandecges with macron on second a: the vowel is broad, as in father.
Ptolemy Macron, who alone spoke in favour of peaceful measures, could gain no hearing.
This book contains a large number of characters with a macron (straight line) over them.
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