mile

See also milè, miłe, mìle, and míle

English

Wikipedia

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /maɪ̯l/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪl

Noun

mile (plural miles)

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.

4. (slang) A great distance.

   The shot missed by a mile.

5. (informal) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

   five miles over the speed limit

Derived terms

Terms derived from mile

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

nautical mile sea mile ton mile

Translations

measure of length

• Arabic: ميل (ar) (miil) m
• Cherokee: ᏑᏟᎶᏛ (chr) (sutlilodv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 英里 (cmn) (yīnglǐ)

• Czech: míle (cs) f
• Dutch: mijl (nl) m
• Esperanto: mejlo (eo)
• Estonian: miil (et)
• Finnish: maili (fi)
• French: mille (fr) m
• German: Meile (de) f
• Greek: μίλι (el) (míli) n
• Hungarian: mérföld (hu)
• Ido: milio (io)
• Italian: miglio (it) m
• Japanese: マイル (ja) (mairu)

• Jèrriais: mille m
• Korean: 마일 (ko) (mail)
• Luxembourgish: Meil (lb) f
• Macedonian: милја (mk) (mílja) f, милји (mk) (mílji) pl
• Malay: batu (ms)
• Navajo: tsinsitą́
• Polish: mila (pl) f
• Portuguese: milha (pt) f
• Russian: миля (ru) (mílja) f
• Scottish Gaelic: mìle (gd) f
• Spanish: milla (es) f
• Swedish: mil (sv) c, engelsk mil (sv) c
• Taos: mį̀yo’óna
• Turkish: mil (tr)
• Volapük: liöl (vo)

Roman measure of length

• Finnish: roomalainen (fi) maili (fi)

• German: Meile (de) f

track race

• Finnish: maili (fi)

slang: large distance

• Finnish: kilometri (fi)

informal: one mile per hour

• Finnish: kilsa (fi) (km/h)

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Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: milja (sh) f
• Welsh: milltir (cy)

See also

• mileage
• milepost
• milestone
• miles per gallon
• mpg

Anagrams

• Emil
• lime

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Danish

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /miːlə/, [ˈmiːlə]

Noun

mile c (singular definite milen, plural indefinite miler)

1. dune
2. charcoal stack
3. atomic pile

Inflection

    Inflection of mile

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	mile	milen	miler	milerne
genitive	miles	milens	milers	milernes

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French

Etymology

From Latin mille, compare mille and Old English mil

Noun

mile m (plural miles)

1. mile

Anagrams

• lime, limé
• miel

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Old French

Alternative forms

• mil

Etymology

Latin mille

Numeral

mile

1. one thousand

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Polish

Noun

mile

1. nominative plural of mila
2. accusative plural of mila
3. vocative plural of mila

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈmile]

Noun

mile f pl

1. Plural form of milă