mile
/maɪ̯l/ noun B1- 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.
- 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.
- 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 mile or Arabic mile.
- An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
- Any similarly large distance. · The shot missed by a mile.· My legs felt stiff and leaden from miles of walking.
- 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.
Plural miles
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Drebber’s body was, as recorded, discovered in an empty house in the Brixton Road, many miles from Euston.
A hundred miles or more,
I take it for granted that since dawn every constable within forty miles has been looking out for a wet stranger?”
Dorothy was an innocent, harmless little girl, who had been carried by a cyclone many miles from home; and she had never killed anything in all her life.
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