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macron

/mey-kron, mak-ron/US // ˈmeɪ krɒn, ˈmæk rɒn //UK // (ˈmækrɒn) //

马克龙,马克隆,马可波罗,马可龙

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a horizontal line used as a diacritic over a vowel to indicate that it has a long sound or other specified pronunciation, as in fate.

Examples

  • PARIS — At 36, Emmanuel Macron, France's new Economy Minister, is remarkably young.

  • Macron excelled at France's elite schools, including the civil-servant powerhouse Ecole Nationale d'Administration.

  • Precocious even in his private life, Macron does not have children of his own but, at 36, he is a grandfather.

  • Combinations such as (y with breve and macron) or (o with under-dot and macron) may not display as intended in all browsers.

  • This book contains Unicode characters, such as c (c with combining macron).

  • Pandecges with macron on second a: the vowel is broad, as in father.

  • Ptolemy Macron, who alone spoke in favour of peaceful measures, could gain no hearing.

  • This book contains a large number of characters with a macron (straight line) over them.