mile

Meaning

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.
2. 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.
3. Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
4. The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
5. Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
6. An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
7. (informal) Any similarly large distance.
8. (slang) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
9. (slang) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

Concepts

mile

mi

nautical mile

naut mi

statute mile

land mile

stat mi

knot

sea mile

international mile

Swedish mile

mil

Roman mile

air mile

international nautical mile

Admiralty mile

geographical mile

m

gallon

hour

mile-stone

kilometre

thousand

league

a lot

deal

far

greatly

hard

heaps

lots

mess

molto

much

plentiful

raft

right smart

sight

way

wide

widely

myriameter

myriametre

cleanly

apparently

clear

clearly

distinctly

evidently

explicitly

in spades

markedly

palpably

plainly

pointedly

Pronounced as (IPA)

/maɪ̯l/

Etymology

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”)).

Sentences

We were only half a mile from the destination when the engine packed in .