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mile

/maɪ̯l/
noun

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.

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Noun 4 meanings

  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.”

  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.

  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.

Definitions: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA) via Kaikki/Wiktextract

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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”)).

MILE at a glance

MILE has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (M 3 + I 1 + L 1 + E 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,488 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.

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