mile
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- noun
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mil (Suecia)
- Driving for about fifty miles will take you to the nearest town.
Examples
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The road we took over the mountains joins Highway 101 about fifty miles north of here.
Fiction book (1990) -
About half a mile away, an elk plowed through the chest-deep snow, browsing on lodgepole pine needles.
Academic text (1991) -
Her house was about half a mile from mine, a pretty quick walk.
Fiction book (1998) -
Local police found a van a mile to the north full of electronics gear.
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Well, there used to be a dirt road about two miles up the interstate.
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A five-mile security perimeter has been established.
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Further on, in about a mile, there's a man who keeps a little garden, tomatoes and lettuce and such.
Fiction book (1998) -
I had come about a half-mile among the bamboo stems, steering a relatively straight course by the sun.
Fiction book (1991) -
The distance from the city center to the airport is approximately ten miles.
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She ran a marathon that is just over twenty-six miles long.
Synonyms
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A Swedish unit of distance equal to 10 kilometres
A unit of length used in Sweden equal to 10 kilometers
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 in Sweden is the word mil and means 'ten kilometres' in modern use, a local meaning that is much longer than the English mile. So if someone in Sweden talks about a mile, they usually mean ten kilometres rather than the 1,609 metres mile.