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Macron

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Noun

1. macron

a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound

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Macron

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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
noun
Emmanuel (emanɥɛl). born 1977, French centrist politician; president of France from 2017

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Macron

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noun
a short, straight mark (¯) placed over a vowel to indicate that it is long or is to be pronounced in a certain way

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Macron

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n.
1. A symbol ( ¯ ) placed over a vowel to show that it has a long sound.
2. The horizontal mark ( ¯ ) used to indicate a stressed or long syllable in a foot of verse.

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