Mile - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude (syn: mi)
- a large distance
- a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile (syn: mi)
- an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
- a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km (syn: mil)
- a footrace extending one mile
Extra examples
He was miles from home.
Traffic backups stretched for miles in both directions.
He is taller than you by a mile.
It's forty miles from here to the Polish border.
We walked about half a mile.
He was driving at 70 miles per hour.
That was miles far from it!
She was only a mile from the safety of her home when the accident occurred.
It's a mile south of here.
This enormous canyon is over a mile deep.
He tracked the deer for a mile.
By the end of the 10th mile, three bicyclists were crowding the racer in front.
The fog reduced visibility to a quarter of a mile.
...if there were a direct relation between mendacity and the length of one's proboscis, hers would be a mile long...
They live less than a quarter mile from us.
Word forms
singular: mile
plural: miles
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