mile

noun5, 280 feet/1.609 kilometers measured

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noun 5, 280 feet/1.609 kilometers measured

Word Origin & History

Old English mil, from West Germanic *milja (cf. Middle Dutch mile, Dutch mijl, Old High German mila, German meile), from Latin mila "thousands," plural of mille "a thousand" (neuter plural was mistaken in Germanic as a fem. singular), of unknown origin.

The Latin word also is the source of French mille, Italian miglio, Spanish milla. The Scandinavian words (Old Norse mila, etc.) are from English. An ancient Roman mile was 1,000 double paces (one step with each foot), for about 4,860 feet, but there were many local variants and a modern statute mile is about 400 feet longer. In Germany, Holland, and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages, the Latin word was applied arbitrarily to the ancient Germanic rasta, a measure of from 3.25 to 6 English miles. Mile-a-minute (adj.) "very fast" is attested from 1957.

Example Sentences for mile

There's one about a quarter of a mile down the stream—Stetson's boat.

He was already a mile distant from the vessel when Captain Haley came on deck.

They saw an American ship riding at anchor a mile or more from shore.

He had started on the return journey, and was only a mile from Yuin when we overtook him.

Windich found a native spring about a mile to the North-East.

The natives also found a fine water-hole about a mile from camp.

The feed is good a mile down from the spring, although it is very old and dry.

Followed up the gully about a mile, and came to a small spring, and camped.

The river is about a mile and a half north of us, and we have not seen it for some miles.

Then drive on; if there had been, I wouldn't have travelled a mile with her.

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