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mile

Syllables: Mi·le/maɪ.əl//maɪ̯l/

mile 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

mile (plural miles or (UK colloquial) mile)

  1. 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.
    • You need to go about three mile down the road.
  2. 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.1892, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate: A Novel, page 16
    • 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.1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
  3. Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
  4. The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
  5. Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
  6. An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
  7. (informal) Any similarly large distance.
    • The shot missed by a mile.
    • My legs felt stiff and leaden from miles of walking.
  8. 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.
  9. (colloquial) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
    • five miles over the speed limit
  10. (usually in place names) A prominent road or street, often roughly a mile long.
    • The Royal Mile in Edinburgh. The Millennium Mile (London). Magnificent Mile (Chicago).
    • I'm staying near millionaire's mile.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Mile

Mile

  1. A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Миле (Mile)

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Mile

Mile

  1. A county-level city of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.

mile meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

mile in Hindi

measure of length
मील mīl

mile in Tamil

measure of length
மைல்

mile in Marathi

measure of length
मैल

mile in Urdu

measure of length
میل mīl
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mile in Bengali
মাইল
mile in Malayalam
വലിയ പ്രദേശം, മൈൽ, നാഴിക
mile in Kannada
ಮೈಲು
mile in Punjabi
ਮੀਲ mīl
mile in Odia
ମାଇଲ୍ māil
mile in Sinhala
සැතපුම් sætapum
mile in Pashto
ميل mayl
mile in Tagalog
milya
mile in Arabic
مِيل mīl, عُقْدَة ʕuqda
mile in Malay
batu
mile in Indonesian
mil
mile in Persian
مایل mâyl
mile in Thai
ไมล์ mai
mile in Vietnamese
dặm
mile in Myanmar
မိုင် muing

Examples of mile in a sentence

  • 3.6 km is about 2 miles.
  • Total activity levels in the lowest quartile were equivalent to walking for 49 minutes at roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per hour daily.2024 November 15, Kristen Rogers, “Want to live an extra 5 to 10 years? Adopt this habit, study suggests”, in CNN, archived from the...

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Forms of mile

pluralmiles
plural UK (colloquial)mile

Plural of mile: miles

Origin of mile

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”)).

From Macedonian Ми́ле (Míle).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 彌勒 /弥勒 (Mílè).

Words formed from mile

Phrases with mile

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Words that rhyme with mile

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Questions about mile

What does mile mean?
Mile means 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.
What is mile in Hindi?
Mile in Hindi is मील (mīl). See Mile meaning in Hindi.
How do you use mile in a sentence?
3.6 km is about 2 miles.
What part of speech is mile?
Mile can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mile?
Mile is pronounced /maɪ̯l/ (UK).
What is the plural of mile?
The plural of mile is miles.

Words near mile in the dictionary

  1. mildots
  2. Mildred
  3. mildronate
  4. milds
  5. Mildura
  6. mile
  7. mile a minute
  8. Mile End
  9. Mile High City
  10. Mile High Club
  11. Mile Long Club

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mile (page history and authors); Mile (page history and authors); mile (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mile (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ਮੀਲ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ମାଇଲ୍ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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