mile
English
/maɪ̯l/
noun
Definitions
- 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.
- Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 Kingdom of 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 Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).
- (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flier program.
- (informal) Any similarly large distance.
- (slang) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
- (slang) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English myle inherited from Old English mīl (millet, mile) derived from *mīliju derived from Latin mīlia (thousand).
Origin
Latin
mīlia
Gloss
thousand
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Distribution of cognates by language
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Cognates and derived terms
- castle English
- mailoland English
- marker English
- metric English
- metric mile English
- mile marker English
- mileage English
- milecastle English
- milelong English
- milepost English
- miler English
- milestone English
- milewide English
- milometer English
- post English
- postmile English
- seat English
- seat-mile English
- seatmile English
- stone English
- wide English
- haamumaili Finnish
- maili Finnish
- neljännesmaili Finnish
- milia Latin
- miliens Latin
- milies Latin
- milium Latin
- mīlia Latin
- mīlle Latin
- Meile German
- miglio Italian
- mille Dutch, Flemish
- mile French
- mille French
- mille-feuille French
- millième French
- ми́ля Russian
- milha Portuguese
- マイル Japanese
- 哩 Japanese
- mil Old English
- mīl Old English
- mile Middle English
- myle Middle English
- मील Hindi
- mie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ไมล์ Thai
- mile Middle Dutch
- mila Old High German
- mīla Old High German
- milio Ido
- míle Old Irish
- Meil Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- မိုင် Burmese
- mijë Albanian
- mille Middle French
- *mīliju gmw-pro
- מייל Hebrew (modern)
- 哩 Chinese
- 邁 Chinese
- njilje Aromanian
- njilji Aromanian
- maili Swahili
- 마일 Korean
- *smīɣeslī Proto-Italic
- imayela Zulu
- *mīl Old Frisian
- mail Tok Pisin
- mil Breton
- མེ་ལེ Tibetan
- မႅင်ႇ Shan
- mwail Chuukese
- mail Fiji Hindi
- milu Garifuna