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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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noun

(usually a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

“Writers often choose accommodation when discussing complex ideas.”

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macron

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈmeɪkɹɒn/Used In Literature ↓

A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (¯) placed over any of various letters, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long.

Origin

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Common Phrases

. macronover macronaccent macronmacron ptolemymacron modified
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Synonyms

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Antonyms

brevemicron

Related Words

macron belowbrevecircumflexdiacriticaldiacritical marktildeacute accentaccent mark

Poetry examples for “macron”

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTESbyLord Byron

set. These have been represented using bracket notation: [=a], [=i] [=e]

represent those letters with a macron. A few instances of superscript

letters are indicated by carets, as in "Concluded, Canto 2^d, Smyrna,

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