Mile

Etymology
Old English mīl, from a Germanic borrowing of Latin mīlia, mīllia, plural of mīle, mīlle ‘mile’ (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of mille passus ‘a thousand paces’). Cognate with Dutch mijl, German Meile.

Noun

 * 1) A unit of measure (length or distance) equal to 5,280 feet (8 furlongs) in the U.S.Customary/Imperial system of measurements. One mile is equal to 1.609344 km.
 * 2) A Roman unit of measure equal to 1000 (double) steps (mille passus or mille passuum) or 5000 Roman feet (approx. 1480m).
 * 3) A track race of one mile in length; sometimes used to refer to the 1500m race.
 * The runners competed in the mile.
 * 1)  A great distance.
 * The shot missed by a mile.
 * 1)  One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
 * five miles over the speed limit

Derived terms

 * air mile
 * in for an inch, in for a mile
 * metric mile


 * nautical mile
 * sea mile
 * ton mile

Translations

 * Arabic: ميل
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 * Greek: μίλι (míli)
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 * Japanese: マイル
 * Korean: 마일
 * Macedonian: милја, милји
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 * Scottish Gaelic: mìle
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, engelsk mil
 * Taos: mį̀yo’óna
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: liöl


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 * Finnish: (km/h)


 * : milja
 * : milltir

Anagrams

 * Emil
 * lime

Noun

 * 1) dune
 * 2) charcoal stack
 * 3) atomic pile

Etymology
mille:, compare mille: and Old English mil:

Anagrams

 * lime, limé
 * miel

Etymology
mille:

Cardinal number

 * 1) one thousand

Noun
mile



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