mile

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See also milè, miłe, mìle, and míle

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[edit] English

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[edit] 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.

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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. [1]
  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

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Terms derived from mile

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measure of length
Roman measure of length
track race
slang: large distance
informal: one mile per hour
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  1. ^ http://www.onlineconversion.com/length_common.htm

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[edit] Danish

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  • IPA: /miːlə/, [ˈmiːlə]

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mile c. (singular definite milen, plural indefinite miler)

  1. dune
  2. charcoal stack
  3. atomic pile

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

[edit] French

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From Latin mille, compare mille and Old English mil

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mile m. (plural miles)

  1. mile

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Latin mille

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mile

  1. one thousand

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mile

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

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  • IPA: [ˈmile]

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mile f. pl.

  1. Plural form of milă.
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