half-mile
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Half of a statute mile, a measurement of 880 yards, or 2,640 feet, or 804.672 metres.
Example Sentences
- "These trains in the course of their day's work often travel a distance little less than that from London to Glasgow, stopping and starting every half-mile."
- "They were greeted with applause, medals and the skirl of bagpipes from our lone piper - a sound some told us encouraged tired legs for the last half-mile as the pipes could be heard on the mountain."
Inflected Forms
half-miles (plural)