miler
/ˈmaɪləɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "But the master himself was an old Oxford miler, who could still bear it better than I; nay, as I flagged and stumbled, I heard him pounding steadily behind."
- "The champion sprinter is seldom a five-miler as well."
- "Indeed, with a world record‐holder or Olympic champion in almost every race, with six milers who have broken 4 minutes, eight high jumpers who can top 7 feet and seven pole vaulters who have cleared 17 feet, there is no way guessing how many Olympic champions‐elect will be on display in the hatbox over Penn Station."
- "I ran an eight-miler on Sunday and I'm still feeling sore."
- "There were some impressive victories, but Fleming believes her most important race was the second of two close second-place finishes to Pippig, one in the Peachtree 10-K in Atlanta in July and the second in a seven-miler in Davenport, Iowa, a week later."
- "They started with a mile; by January, they were hitting the trails at Bear Mountain at 7 a.m. on Saturdays for a brisk eight-miler."
Etymology
From mile + -er.