Macron : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Macron	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Macron
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
macron n a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Macron \Ma"cron\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] long.] (Pron.) A short, straight, horizontal mark [-], placed over vowels to denote that they are to be pronounced with a long sound; as, [be], in d[be]me; [emac], in s[emac]am, etc.