mile
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- noun
- /maɪl/
- Archaic
:
milla romana
- The marathon route is a total of twenty-six miles long.
Examples
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He jogged for about a mile before turning back.
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And look at a forest from a half a mile away and you just see a mass of green.
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It's about 50 miles from here.
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Their headquarters are less than 100 miles from here.
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Three miles to the Embassy.
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Imagine, some 18,000 years ago, an ice sheet over a mile thick covered Manhattan Island.
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It's all for a new stretch of a toll road running 41 miles from Austin to Seguin.
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Figure 3 was made near the Eielson Visitor Center at mile 66 on the Denali National Park road.
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The park is located just a mile from my house.
Synonyms
An ancient Roman unit of distance equal to about 1,480 meters
Idioms
- Informal
Allowing a small favor makes someone try to take much more than you wanted
- Informal
When you are already helping a little, keep going and do it completely even if it gets much bigger
- Informal
Imagine being the other person to understand their feelings and situation
Compounds
- Specialized
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A distance of exactly 1,852 meters used for measuring sea and air travel
- Archaic
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A line three miles from a country's coast that marks the sea it controls
- Archaic
An old measure of distance used at sea that equals 6,080 feet, about 1,853 metres
A common name for Denver, the capital of Colorado, because it is about one mile above sea level
- Specialized
A unit of length equal to 1,609.344 meters used in the United States and the United Kingdom
- Specialized
A unit of distance for ships and planes that equals 1,852 meters
- Specialized
A U.S. measure of distance equal to 1,609.347 meters used in land surveys
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mile also names the old Roman mile, which meant one thousand paces ('mille passus'), so the ancient mile was shorter than the modern mile. That's why historians say the Roman mile is not the same length as our mile today.