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mile
English
Etymology
From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English m?l, from Proto-West Germanic *m?liju, a borrowing of Latin m?lia, m?llia, plural of m?le, m?lle (“mile”) (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of m?lle pass?s (“a thousand paces”)).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ma??l/, [ma???]
- Rhymes: -a?l
Noun
mile (plural miles)
- 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.
- 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.
- Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
- The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
- Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (?) or Arabic mile (al-m?l).
- (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
- (informal) Any similarly large distance.
- (slang) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
- (slang) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
Anagrams
- Elmi, Emil, Imel, Lemi, Liem, Meli, lime
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi?l?/, [?mi?l?]
- Rhymes: -ajl
Noun
mile c (singular definite milen, plural indefinite miler)
- dune
- charcoal stack
- atomic pile
Inflection
French
Etymology
From English mile.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mil/, /majl/
Noun
mile m (plural miles)
- mile
Related terms
- mille
Further reading
- “mile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- lime, limé
- miel
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English m?l (“millet”) and Latin milium (“millet”).
Alternative forms
- myle, milde, mylde, mylie, mylle
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi?l/, /mil/
Noun
mile
- millet (grass used as grain)
- The seed of millet.
Descendants
- English: mile (obsolete)
References
- “m??le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.
Etymology 2
Noun
mile
- Alternative form of myle (“mile”)
Old French
Alternative forms
- mil
Etymology
From Latin m?lle (plural m?lia).
Numeral
mile
- one thousand
Descendants
- Middle French: mille, mil, mile
- French: mille
- ? Garifuna: milu (possibly)
- French: mille
- Norman: mille (Jersey)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?i.l?/
Etymology 1
From mi?y +? -e.
Adverb
mile (comparative milej, superlative najmilej)
- kindly, warmly
Related terms
- mi?y
- mi?o
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
mile f
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mila
Further reading
- mile in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- mile in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?mile]
Noun
mile f pl
- plural of mil?
Serbo-Croatian
Adjective
mile
- inflection of mio:
- masculine accusative plural
- feminine genitive singular
- feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English mylne, from Old English mylen.
Noun
mile
- mill
Derived terms
- mileare
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
mile From the web:
- = 1.609344 kilometers
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kilometre
English
Alternative forms
- chiliometre, chilometer, chilometre (obsolete)
- kilometer (American)
Etymology
From French kilomètre, from Ancient Greek ?????? (khílioi, “thousand”) + ?????? (métron, “measure”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?l??mi?t?/, /k??l?m?t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /k??l?m?t??/, /?k?l??mit??/
Noun
kilometre (plural kilometres)
- (official BIPM spelling, British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian, New Zealand, Irish, Indian and South African spelling) (metrology) An SI unit of length equal to 103 metres. Symbol: km
Synonyms
- klick (military slang, used when referring to distance)
- km (official SI symbol)
Derived terms
- cubic kilometre
- square kilometre
Related terms
- kilometric
Translations
Anagrams
- kilometer
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