mile

plural miles

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.

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   You need to go about three mile down the road.

   3.6 km is about 2 miles.

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.

   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.

   1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days

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   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.

   1892, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate: A Novel, page 16

   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.

   2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2021, page 52

   Total activity levels in the lowest quartile were equivalent to walking for 49 minutes at roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per hour daily. Total activity levels in the second-, third- and fourth-highest quartiles were equivalent to 78, 105 and 160 minutes, respectively.

   2024 November 15, Kristen Rogers, “Want to live an extra 5 to 10 years? Adopt this habit, study suggests”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2025

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.
5. Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
6. lifestyleAn airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
7. informalAny similarly large distance.

   The shot missed by a mile.

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   My legs felt stiff and leaden from miles of walking.

8. athleticsA 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.

9. colloquialOne mile per hour, as a measure of speed.

   five miles over the speed limit

10. usually in place namesA prominent road or street, often roughly a mile long.

    I'm staying near millionaire's mile.

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

1. A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Миле (Mile)

1. A county-level city of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.