# mile
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *mīliju, a borrowing of Latin mīlia, mīllia, plural of mīle, mīlle (“mile”) (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of mīlle passūs (“a thousand paces”)).

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /maɪ̯l/, [maɪ̯ɫ]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪl

### Noun

mile (plural miles or (UK colloquial) mile)
* 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.
    Turn left in 1.2 miles.
    You need to go about three mile down the road. (UK colloquial plural)
* 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.
** 1892, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate: A Novel, page 16: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.
** 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
** 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. […] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
* 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 mile or Arabic mile.
* (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
* (informal) Any similarly large distance.
    The shot missed by a mile.
* (athletics) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
    The runners competed in the mile.
* (colloquial) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
    five miles over the speed limit

#### Derived terms

* air mile
* a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
* a mile wide and an inch deep
* a miss is as good as a mile
* Arab mile, Arabic mile, Arabian mile
* available seat-mile
* available ton mile
* beer mile
* bus mile
* car mile
* Chinese mile
* country mile
* Curry Mile
* first mile
* food miles
* Forty Mile
* from a mile away
* geographic mile, geographical mile
* give someone an inch and someone will take a mile
* give them an inch and they'll take a mile
* go the extra mile
* half-mile
* Imperial mile
* in for an inch, in for a mile
* international mile
* Irish mile
* Italian mile
* land mile
* last mile
* light-mile
* measured mile
* metric mile
* middle mile
* mile-a-minute, mile a minute
* Mile End
* mile-fortlet
* mile marker
* miles away
* miles gloriosus
* miles of bad road
* milestone
* miracle mile
* nautical mile
* Nine Mile
* passenger mile
* plane mile
* Roman mile
* route mile
* run a mile
* Scandinavian mile
* Scots mile, Scottish mile
* sea mile
* seat-mile
* second-mile service
* Six Mile Bottom
* Square Mile
* square mile
* standing mile
* stand out a mile
* statute mile
* stick out a mile
* survey mile
* Swedish mile
* talk a mile a minute
* Ten Mile Bank
* thousand-mile stare
* Three Mile Island
* ton-mile
* ton mile
* traffic mile
* train mile
* walk a mile in someone's shoes
* zero mile marker

#### Translations
### See also

* mileage
* milepost
* miles per gallon
* milestone
* mpg

### Anagrams

* Elim, Elmi, Emil, Imel, Lemi, Liem, Meli, elim, lime

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech mile, míle. By surface analysis, milý +‎ -e.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɪlɛ]

### Adverb

mile (comparative mileji, superlative nejmileji)
* kindly, warmly

### Further reading

* “mile”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “mile”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “mile”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːlə/, [ˈmiːlə]
* Rhymes: -ajl

### Noun

mile c (singular definite milen, plural indefinite miler)
* dune
* charcoal stack
* atomic pile

#### Inflection
## French
### Etymology

From English mile.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mil/, /majl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mile m (plural miles)
* mile

#### Related terms

* mille

### Further reading

* “mile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* lime, limé
* miel

## Hawaiian
### Noun

mile
* mile (unit of measure)

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English mīl (“millet”) and Latin milium (“millet”).

#### Alternative forms

* myle, milde, mylde, mylie, mylle

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːl/, /mil/

#### Noun

mile
* millet (grass used as grain)
* The seed of millet.

##### Descendants

* English: mile (obsolete)

##### References

* “mī̆le, 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 English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmiː.le/

### Noun

mīle
* inflection of mīl:
** nominative plural
** accusative singular/plural
** genitive/dative singular

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* mil

### Etymology

From Latin mīlle (plural mīlia).

### Numeral

mile
* one thousand

#### Descendants

* Middle French: mille, mil, mile
** French: mille (see there for further descendants)
* Norman: mille (Jersey)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi.lɛ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ilɛ
* Syllabification: mi‧le
* Homophones: Mile, milę, Milę

### Etymology 1

From miły +‎ -e.

#### Adverb

mile (comparative milej, superlative najmilej)
* kindly, warmly

##### Related terms

* miło
* miły

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

mile f
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mila

### Further reading

* mile in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* mile in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmile]

### Noun

mile f pl
* plural of milă

## Serbo-Croatian
### Adjective

mile
* inflection of mio:
** masculine accusative plural
** feminine genitive singular
** feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English mille, from Old English mylen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miːl/

### Noun

mile
* mill
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 12, page 88:Licke a mope an a mile, he gazt ing a mize;Like a fool in a mill, he looked in amazement;
** 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 102:Dhicka die fan ich want to a mile.That day when I went to the mill.

#### Derived terms

* mileare
* weend-mile

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56