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Definition

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

Hyphenation

ma-cron (6 letters | 2 syllables)

First known use in English

1851 (Victorian era) (174 years ago)

Word origin

Modern Greek

Word frequency history

Inflected form

macrons

Broader terms

diacritic | diacritical mark

Lexically close words

Dacron | macros | matron | micron

Anagrams

(none among common words)

Other notable uses

macron.com

Crossword puzzle clues

Diacritical mark | Long-vowel mark
(based on all New York Times crossword puzzles 1994 to 2009)

Scrabble score

10 (International English) | 10 (North American English)

Phone keypad digits

(???) ?62-2766