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Square mile

name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun

1
Synonym of City of London. London, informal
2
Synonym of Golden Square Mile. Montreal

Noun

1
A unit of area equal to that in a square with 1 mile sides, equivalent to 2.59 km².
"Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles."
2
an area of 640 acres wordnet
3
A downtown, a city center.

Etymology

From square mile * (London): The City's land area is about 1.12 square miles and roughly square in shape. * (Montreal): Ellipsis of Golden Square Mile. From having a land area of roughly a mile square.

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