mile
See also: Mile, milé, milè, miłe, míle, mìle, and mĩ lệ
English
Etymology
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”)).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /maɪ̯l/, [maɪ̯ɫ]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪl
Noun
mile (plural miles or (UK colloquial) mile)
- 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. (UK colloquial plural)
- 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.
- 1892, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate: A Novel, page 16:
- Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
- 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
- From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. […] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
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- Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
- The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
- Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).
- (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
- (informal) Any similarly large distance.
- The shot missed by a mile.
- (slang) 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.
- (slang) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
- five miles over the speed limit
Derived terms
- air mile
- a miss is as good as a mile
- Arab mile, Arabic mile, Arabian mile
- available seat-mile
- available ton mile
- car mile
- Chinese mile
- country mile
- Curry Mile
- from a mile away
- geographic mile, geographical mile
- give someone an inch and someone will take a mile
- give them an inch and they'll take a mile
- go the extra mile
- Imperial mile
- in for an inch, in for a mile
- international mile
- Irish mile
- Italian mile
- land mile
- last mile
- measured mile
- metric mile
- middle mile
- mile-a-minute, mile a minute
- Mile End
- mile-fortlet
- mile marker
- milestone
- mile wide and inch deep
- miracle mile
- nautical mile
- passenger mile
- Roman mile
- run a mile
- Scandinavian mile
- Scots mile, Scottish mile
- sea mile
- seat-mile
- second-mile service
- Six Mile Bottom
- square mile, Square Mile
- standing mile
- stand out a mile
- statute mile
- stick out a mile
- survey mile
- Swedish mile
- talk a mile a minute
- Ten Mile Bank
- ton mile
- traffic mile
- train mile
- walk a mile in someone's shoes
Translations
measure of length
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Roman measure of length — see Roman mile
Scandinavian measure of length — see Scandinavian mile
track race
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slang: large distance
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informal: one mile per hour
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See also
- mileage
- milepost
- milestone
- miles per gallon
- mpg
Anagrams
- Elim, Elmi, Emil, Imel, Lemi, Liem, Meli, elim, lime
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miːlə/, [ˈmiːlə]
- Rhymes: -ajl
Noun
mile c (singular definite milen, plural indefinite miler)
- dune
- charcoal stack
- atomic pile
Inflection
Declension of mile
| common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | mile | milen | miler | milerne |
| genitive | miles | milens | milers | milernes |
French
Etymology
From English mile.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mil/, /majl/
Audio (file)
Noun
mile m (plural miles)
- mile
Related terms
- mille
Further reading
- “mile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- lime, limé
- miel
Hawaiian
Noun
mile
- mile (unit of measure)
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English mīl (“millet”) and Latin milium (“millet”).
Alternative forms
- myle, milde, mylde, mylie, mylle
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miːl/, /mil/
Noun
mile
- millet (grass used as grain)
- The seed of millet.
Descendants
- English: mile (obsolete)
References
- “mī̆le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.
Noun
mile
- Alternative form of myle (“mile”)
Old French
Alternative forms
- mil
Etymology
From Latin mīlle (plural mīlia).
Numeral
mile
- one thousand
Descendants
- Middle French: mille, mil, mile
- French: mille (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: mille (Jersey)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmi.lɛ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ilɛ
- Syllabification: mi‧le
Etymology 1
From miły + -e.
Adverb
mile (comparative milej, superlative najmilej)
- kindly, warmly
Related terms
- miło
- miły
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
mile f
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mila
Further reading
- mile in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- mile in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmile]
Noun
mile f pl
- plural of milă
Serbo-Croatian
Adjective
mile
- inflection of mio:
- masculine accusative plural
- feminine genitive singular
- feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English mylne, from Old English mylen.
Noun
mile
- mill
Derived terms
- mileare
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 56