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Mile   /maɪl/   Listen
Mile

noun
1.
A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters.  Synonyms: international mile, land mile, mi, stat mi, statute mile.
2.
A unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude.  Synonyms: air mile, international nautical mile, knot, mi, naut mi, nautical mile.
3.
A large distance.
4.
A former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters).  Synonym: sea mile.
5.
A former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile.  Synonyms: Admiralty mile, geographical mile, mi, naut mi, nautical mile.
6.
An ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards.  Synonym: Roman mile.
7.
A Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km.  Synonyms: mil, Swedish mile.
8.
A footrace extending one mile.



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"Mile" Quotes from Famous Books



... her eyes, and she took the two strangers into her heart at sight. The baby, wearied with the long journey had been fretting for the last hour, but no sooner did he find himself in Mrs. Hyde's arms, than he settled down comfortably and went to sleep and slept soundly through the three mile drive from the station. ...
— The Bishop's Shadow • I. T. Thurston
... of the town into the lovely meadow-lands, a good mile up the brawling Tepl, before they join on the right side of the torrent, where the Posthof lurks nestled under trees whose boughs let the sun and rain impartially through upon its army of little tables. By this time the slow omnibus plying between Carlsbad ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... our rusks, but notwithstanding devours a great quantity of them. For some time he has appeared to me to have become more amiable than formerly; his temper is milder, his heart always was mild. He is the friend and physician of all the poor. A short time ago he bought a little villa, a mile distant from the city; it is to be the comfort of his age, and is to be called 'The Old Man's Rose,'—does ...
— The Home • Fredrika Bremer
... who has just come up from below that interests me so much that I can't help watching him all the time he's in sight. The first time I saw him was the day we came on board. The schooner had dropped down a mile or two, and Captain Peck, our worthy host at Marblehead, came out in a little boat to bring some of Clarendon's clothes, which had been left by accident. He is a clever fellow, for though Clarendon was not half civil to him, he was ...
— Hurrah for New England! - The Virginia Boy's Vacation • Louisa C. Tuthill
... about excitement. Well Last summer, up at Silver Dell, Jim Brown and I took a canoe And paddled out a mile or two. When we left shore the sun was out— Serenest day, beyond a doubt, I ever saw. When suddenly It thunders, and a heavy sea Comes up. 'I'm goin' to jump,' says Jim. He jumps. I don't know how to swim, ...
— Tobogganing On Parnassus • Franklin P. Adams


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