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milers

milers is the plural of miler.

Meaning of miler

Noun

miler (plural milers)

  1. (in-compounds, often) An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles.
    • 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.1905, E.W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night
  2. (in-compounds) A race whose length is the specified number of miles.
    • I ran an eight-miler on Sunday and I'm still feeling sore.

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Proper noun capitalized: Milers

Milers

  1. (plural) plural of Miler

Questions about milers

What is milers the plural of?
Milers is the plural of miler.
What part of speech is milers?
Milers is a proper noun.

Words near milers in the dictionary

  1. milepost
  2. mileposted
  3. mileposting
  4. mileposts
  5. miler
  6. milers
  7. milertary
  8. miles
  9. miles a minute
  10. miles away
  11. Miles City

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Adapted from Wiktionary: milers (page history and authors); Milers (page history and authors); miler (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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