Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any of the various miles used to measure length on land, as opposed to the nautical mile.

More definitions
  • a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters

Examples

2 sentences
  1. I own 30 acres of land about 3 miles out of town.

    deIch besitze zwölf Hektar Land etwa fünf Kilometer vor der Stadt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. They scouted the land for miles.

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Forms

plural: land miles
Singularland mile
Pluralland miles

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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