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Mile
name, noun, slang
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Миле (Mile)
- 2 A county-level city of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.
Noun
- 1 The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
"Turn left in 1.2 miles."
- 2 a footrace extending one mile wordnet
- 3 Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
"Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn."
- 4 a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters wordnet
- 5 Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
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- 6 a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km wordnet
- 7 The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
- 8 an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards wordnet
- 9 Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
- 10 a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude wordnet
- 11 An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
- 12 a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile wordnet
- 13 Any similarly large distance. informal
"The shot missed by a mile."
- 14 a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters) wordnet
- 15 A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
"The runners competed in the mile."
- 16 a large distance wordnet
- 17 One mile per hour, as a measure of speed. colloquial
"five miles over the speed limit"
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *mīliju, a borrowing of Latin mīlia, mīllia, plural of mīle, mīlle (“mile”) (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of mīlle passūs (“a thousand paces”)).
Etymology 2
From Macedonian Ми́ле (Míle).
Etymology 3
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 彌勒 /弥勒 (Mílè).
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