Usually means: Horizontal mark over a vowel.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word macron:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. Macron, macron: Merriam-Webster
  2. macron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. macron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. macron: Collins English Dictionary
  5. macron: Vocabulary.com
  6. Macron, macron: Wordnik
  7. Macron, macron: Wiktionary
  8. macron: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. macron: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. macron: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Macron, macron: Dictionary.com
  12. macron: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Macron (diacritic), Macron (disambiguation), Macron (gastropod), Macron (physics), Macron (sportswear), Macron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Macron: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. macron: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. macron: Rhymezone
  17. macron: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  18. Macron: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. macron: FreeDictionary.org
  20. macron: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. macron: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. macron: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. macron: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Macron: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Macron: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Macron)

noun:  (orthography) A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (◌̄) placed over a letter, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long.
noun:  A surname from French.

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