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milewide

milewide adjective: measuring a mile in width.

Adjective

milewide (not comparable)

  1. Measuring a mile in width.
    • In cities like Hoboken, Jersey City and Weehawken, the value of a view of the Manhattan skyline across a milewide stretch of water overwhelms a site’s value as a functional place to store and repackage goods.2007 May 23, Antoinette Martin, “Developing Ports of Many Modes”, in New York Times

Origin of milewide

From mile + wide.

Questions about milewide

What does milewide mean?
Milewide means measuring a mile in width.
What part of speech is milewide?
Milewide is an adjective.

Words near milewide in the dictionary

  1. Mileven
  2. Milevska
  3. Milevski
  4. mileway
  5. mileways
  6. milewide
  7. Milewski
  8. Milewskis
  9. Miley
  10. milf
  11. milfasartan

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