mile

Noun

• a footrace extending one mile
  • he holds the record in the mile
    

• a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km

• an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards

• a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile

• a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)

• a large distance
  • he missed by a mile
    

• a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

• a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  mil , Swedish mile , Roman mile , nautical mile , naut mi , mi , geographical mile , Admiralty mile , sea mile , knot , international nautical mile , air mile , statute mile , stat mi , land mile , international mile