mile
Plural
miles
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a unit of measuring length equal to 1.6 kilometers or 1760 yards
- The marathon route is 26.2 miles long.
- She drove 50 miles to visit her grandparents.
- The highway exit is just a few miles ahead.
- The racecourse is a mile in circumference.
- The bicycle race covers a distance of 100 miles.
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a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
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a footrace extending one 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
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a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)
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a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile
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a large distance