Meaning

10 senses
  1. 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.

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

  2. 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.

    a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile

  3. Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.

  4. The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.

    a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km

  5. Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.

  6. An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.

  7. (informal)Any similarly large distance.

    The shot missed by a mile.

    My legs felt stiff and leaden from miles of walking.

    a large distance

  8. 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.

    a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)

  9. (colloquial)One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

    five miles over the speed limit

    Knoten

    у́зелúzel

    ву́золvúzol

  10. A prominent road or street, often roughly a mile long.

    The Royal Mile in Edinburgh. The Millennium Mile (London). Magnificent Mile (Chicago).

    I'm staying near millionaire's mile.

Examples

729 sentences
  1. The station is two miles away.

    Станція знаходиться у двох мілях звідси.

    ruСтанция в трёх километрах отсюда.

    deDer Bahnhof ist zwei Meilen entfernt.

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  2. She can do 90 miles an hour.

    Вона може рухатися зі швидкістью дев'яносто миль на годину.

    ruОна может разгоняться до 90 миль в час.

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  3. I run five miles a day.

    Я пробігаю п'ять миль у день.

    ruЯ пробегаю пять миль в день.

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  4. Tom walks three miles a day.

    Том проходить три милі кожного дня.

    ruТом проходит пешком три мили в день.

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  5. It's only two miles to the village.

    До села лише дві милі.

    ruДо деревни всего три километра.

    deEs sind nur zwei Meilen bis zum Dorf.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
measure of length:
informal: one mile per hour:
Русский
By meaning 2
measure of length:
informal: one mile per hour:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
measure of length:
informal: one mile per hour:

Origin

From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *mīliju, a

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”)).

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Forms

plural: miles / mile
Singularmile
Pluralmiles / mile

regular

Synonyms

15 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

53 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • miles miles
  • three miles miles
  • miles miles from
  • three miles
  • miles miles away
  • two miles miles
  • about three miles
  • thirty miles miles
  • miles miles a
  • hundred miles miles
  • many miles miles
  • miles miles to

See also

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