MILE
\mˈa͡ɪl], \mˈaɪl], \m_ˈaɪ_l]\
Definitions of MILE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a British unit of length equivalent to 1,853.18 meters (6,082 feet)
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a footrace extending one mile; "he holds the record in the mile"
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a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
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an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
By Princeton University
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a British unit of length equivalent to 1,853.18 meters (6,082 feet)
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a footrace extending one mile; "he holds the record in the mile"
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a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
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an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.
By Oddity Software
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A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.
By Noah Webster.
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A measure of length varying in different countries; as, the English mile, in use in the United States, contains 1,760 yards; the geographical or nautical mile, 2,029 yards.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1760 yards.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A measure of length or distance, the English or statute mile being 1760 yards, and the English geographical mile one-sixtieth of a degree of latitude, or about 2.025 yards.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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An Eng. measure of length or distance of 1760 yards-also called the statute mile, from having been incidentally defined in a statute of Queen Elizabeth; a measure of length differing widely in European countries.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
