English Explanatory Dictionary

mile

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
  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. Any similarly large distance.
  8. A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
  9. One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
name
  1. A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Миле (Mile)
name
  1. A county-level city of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.

Pronunciation

/maɪ̯l/ [maɪ̯ɫ] en-us-mile.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mile.wav mē′lŭ′

Word forms

mile miles

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”)).

Related words

mileage milepost miles per gallon milestone mpg Mileska Mileski Milev Mileva Milevska Milevski

Derived words

air mile a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step a mile wide and an inch deep a miss is as good as a mile Arab mile Arabic mile Arabian mile available seat-mile available ton mile beer mile bus mile car mile Chinese mile country mile Curry Mile Eighteen Mile Eight Mile Creek Eight Mile Plains Eighty Mile Beach Fifteen Mile first mile Five Miles food miles Forty Mile Four Mile Creek a mile away geographic mile geographical mile give someone an inch and someone will take a mile give them an inch and they'll take a mile go the extra mile half a mile half-mile Imperial mile in for an inch, in for a mile international mile Irish mile Italian mile kilomile land mile last mile last mile school light-mile measured mile metric mile middle mile mile-a-minute mile a minute milecastle Mile End mile-fortlet milelong mile marker miles away miles gloriosus miles of bad road milestone mileway milewide milometer

Translations

Afrikaans: myl Albanian: milje Arabic: مِيل Arabic: ميل Armenian: մղոն Azerbaijani: mil Belarusian: мі́ля Bengali: মাইল Bulgarian: ми́ля Burmese: မိုင် Catalan: milla Cherokee: ᏑᏟᎶᏛ Chinese Cantonese: 英里 Chinese Cantonese: 哩 Chinese Cantonese: 咪 Chinese: 英里 Chinese Mandarin: 英里 Cornish: mildir Corsican: migliu Czech: míle Danish: mil Dutch: mijl Esperanto: mejlo Estonian: miil Finnish: maili French: mille Georgian: მილი German: Meile Greek: μίλι Hebrew: מִיל Hindi: मील Hungarian: mérföld Icelandic: míla Ido: milio Indonesian: mil Irish: míle Italian: miglio Japanese: マイル Kazakh: миля Khmer: មីល Korean: 마일 Northern Kurdish: mîl Kyrgyz: миля
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