Meaning Of The Word Macron

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macron in American English
a short, straight mark (¯) placed over a vowel to indicate that it is long or is to be pronounced in a certain way
noun: a horizontal line used as a diacritic over a vowel to indicate that it has a long sound or other specified pronunciation, as over the i in the Arabic letter mīm

macron in British English
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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