mile
- noun
- 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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9.9
A Swedish unit of distance equal to 10 kilometres
1
9.3
A unit of length used in Sweden equal to 10 kilometers
Idioms
- Informal
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4.9
Imagine being the other person to understand their feelings and situation
- Informal
1
7.3
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
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.4
A distance of exactly 1,852 meters used for measuring sea and air travel
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4.4
A common name for Denver, the capital of Colorado, because it is about one mile above sea level
- Archaic
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7.5
A line three miles from a country's coast that marks the sea it controls
- Specialized
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3.0
A unit of length equal to 1,609.344 meters used in the United States and the United Kingdom
- Specialized
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4.4
A unit of distance for ships and planes that equals 1,852 meters
- Specialized
1
7.5
A U.S. measure of distance equal to 1,609.347 meters used in land surveys
- Archaic
An old measure of distance used at sea that equals 6,080 feet, about 1,853 metres
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.