macron

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (◌̄) placed over a letter, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

Similar words

macron below breve circumflex diacritical diacritical mark tilde acute accent accent mark diacritic double acute accent

Often followed by

over is and accent for on above to or

Word family

Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron Emmanuel Macron Macron macrons