mile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tourism
transport
travel
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”)).
Inflected forms:
form: miles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mile
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Turn left in 1.2 miles.
You need to go about three mile down the road.
3.6 km is about 2 miles.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
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.
Total activity levels in the lowest quartile were equivalent to walking for 49 minutes at roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per hour daily. Total activity levels in the second-, third- and fourth-highest quartiles were equivalent to 78, 105 and 160 minutes, respectively.
gloss: Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
pos: noun
gloss: The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
pos: noun
gloss: An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
pos: noun
gloss: Any similarly large distance.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The shot missed by a mile.
My legs felt stiff and leaden from miles of walking.
gloss: A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
pos: noun
examples: The runners competed in the mile.
gloss: One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: five miles over the speed limit
Related words: mileage
milepost
miles per gallon
milestone
mpg
Derived words: 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
Eighteen Mile
Eight Mile Creek
Eight Mile Plains
Eighty Mile Beach
Fifteen Mile
first mile
Five Miles
food miles
Forty Mile
Four Mile Creek
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 a mile
half-mile
Imperial mile
in for an inch, in for a mile
international mile
Irish mile
Italian mile
kilomile
land mile
last mile
last mile school
light-mile
measured mile
metric mile
middle mile
mile-a-minute
mile a minute
milecastle
Mile End
mile-fortlet
milelong
mile marker
miles away
miles gloriosus
miles of bad road
milestone
mileway
milewide
milometer
miracle mile
nautical mile
negamile
Nine Mile
Nine Mile Creek
One Mile
passenger mile
plane mile
postmile
quarter-mile
Roman mile
route mile
run a mile
Scandinavian mile
Scots mile
Scottish mile
sea mile
seat-mile
seatmile
second-mile service
Seven Mile Beach
Seventeen Mile
Seventeen Mile Rocks
Seventy Mile
Six Mile
Six Mile Bottom
Six Mile Swamp
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
Ten Mile Hollow
the whole nine miles
thousand-mile stare
Three Mile Island
ton mile
ton-mile
traffic mile
train mile
Twelve Mile
Twelve Mile Creek
Twelve Mile Lake
Twelve Mile Peg
Two Mile
Two Mile Flat
walk a mile in someone's shoes
zero mile marker
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: myl
lang: Albanian
word: milje
lang: Arabic
word: مِيل
roman: mīl
lang: Arabic
word: ميل
roman: mīl
lang: Armenian
word: մղոն
roman: mġon
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mil
lang: Belarusian
word: мі́ля
roman: mílja
lang: Bengali
word: মাইল
lang: Bulgarian
word: ми́ля
roman: mílja
lang: Burmese
word: မိုင်
roman: muing
lang: Catalan
word: milla
lang: Cherokee
word: ᏑᏟᎶᏛ
roman: sutlilodv
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 英里
roman: jing¹ lei⁵
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 哩
roman: le¹
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 咪
roman: mai¹
lang: Chinese
word: 英里
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 英里
roman: yīnglǐ
lang: Cornish
word: mildir
lang: Corsican
word: migliu
lang: Czech
word: míle
lang: Danish
word: mil
lang: Dutch
word: mijl
lang: Esperanto
word: mejlo
lang: Estonian
word: miil
lang: Finnish
word: maili
lang: French
word: mille
lang: Georgian
word: მილი
roman: mili
lang: German
word: Meile
lang: Greek
word: μίλι
roman: míli
lang: Hebrew
word: מִיל
roman: mil
lang: Hindi
word: मील
roman: mīl
lang: Hungarian
word: mérföld
lang: Icelandic
word: míla
lang: Ido
word: milio
lang: Indonesian
word: mil
lang: Irish
word: míle
lang: Italian
word: miglio
lang: Japanese
word: マイル
roman: mairu
lang: Kazakh
word: миля
roman: milä
lang: Khmer
word: មីល
roman: miil
lang: Korean
word: 마일
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: mîl
lang: Kyrgyz
word: миля
roman: milya
lang: Lao
word: ໄມ
roman: mai
lang: Latvian
word: jūdze
lang: Lithuanian
word: mylia
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Meil
lang: Macedonian
word: милја
roman: milja
lang: Malay
word: batu
lang: Marathi
word: मैल
lang: Mongolian
word: миль
roman: milʹ
lang: Mongolian
word: бээр
lang: Navajo
word: tsinsitą́
lang: Norman
word: mille
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: mil
lang: Pashto
word: ميل
roman: mayl
lang: Persian
word: مایل
roman: mâyl
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Miel
lang: Polish
word: mila
lang: Portuguese
word: milha
lang: Romanian
word: milă
lang: Russian
word: ми́ля
roman: mílja
lang: Samoan
word: maila
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: mìle
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ми̑ља
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mȋlja
lang: Sinhalese
word: සැතපුම්
roman: sætapum
lang: Slovak
word: míľa
lang: Slovene
word: milja
lang: Spanish
word: milla
lang: Swedish
word: mil
lang: Swedish
word: engelsk mil
lang: Tagalog
word: milya
lang: Tajik
word: мил
roman: mil
lang: Taos
word: mį̀yoʼóna
lang: Thai
word: ไมล์
roman: mai
lang: Northern Thai
word: ᨾᩱ
lang: Tibetan
word: མེ་ལེ
lang: Turkish
word: mil
lang: Turkmen
word: mil
lang: Ukrainian
word: ми́ля
roman: mýlja
lang: Urdu
word: میل
roman: mīl
lang: Uzbek
word: milya
lang: Uzbek
word: mil
lang: Vietnamese
word: dặm
lang: Volapük
word: liöl
lang: Welsh
word: milltir
lang: Yiddish
word: מײַל
roman: mayl
lang: Yoruba
word: máìlì
lang: Yoruba
word: ibùsọ̀