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mile¹
- /maɪ̯l/ UK, US
- [maɪ̯ɫ] UK, US
- /maɪ.əl/
Rhymes with -aɪl, -aɪəl
Where it comes from
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”)).
noun miles · mile
- 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.
- 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.
- Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
- The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
- Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
- An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
- Any similarly large distance. The shot missed by a mile.
- 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.
- One mile per hour, as a measure of speed. five miles over the speed limit
- A prominent road or street, often roughly a mile long. The Royal Mile in Edinburgh. The Millennium Mile (London). Magnificent Mile (Chicago).
Mile²
Where it comes from
From Macedonian Ми́ле (Míle).
proper noun
- A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Миле (Mile)
Mile³
Where it comes from
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 彌勒 /弥勒 (Mílè).
proper noun
- A county-level city of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: land mile, statute mile, nautical mile, swedish mile, roman mile, air mile, sea mile, knot, mi, admiralty mile, geographical mile, naut mi, stat mi, kilometre, metre, kilometer
Translations
Every language
noun measure of length
| Español | milla |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 마일 |
| 日本語 | マイル mairu |
| 中文 | 英里 yīnglǐ |
| हिन्दी | मील mīl |
| Português | milha |
| Français | mille |
| Deutsch | Meile |
| Italiano | miglio |
| Ελληνικά | μίλι míli |
| Română | milă |
| Русский | ми́ля mílja |
| Tiếng Việt | dặm |
| العربية | مِيل mīl |
| עברית | מִיל mil |
noun informal: one mile per hour
| 한국어 | 노트 noteu |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | ノット notto |
| 中文 | 節 /节 jié |
| Français | nœud |
| Deutsch | Knoten |
| Русский | у́зел úzel |
| العربية | عُقْدَة ʕuqda |
name county-level city
| 中文 | 彌勒 /弥勒 Mílè |
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title = {mile},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mile},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
