mile
/maɪ̯l/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.59 in modern English
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
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.
noun
Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
noun
The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
noun
Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
noun
An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
Example Sentences
- "Turn left in 1.2 miles."
- "You need to go about three mile down the road."
- "3.6 km is about 2 miles."
- "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."
- "Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall."
- "From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip."
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Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /maɪ̯l/
- British English: /maɪ̯l/