Definitions for kilometer

kilometer kil·o·me·ter

Spelling: [ki-lom-i-ter, kil-uh-mee‐]
IPA: /kɪˈlɒm ɪ tər, ˈkɪl əˌmi‐/

Kilometer is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 350 anagrams from letters in kilometer (eeiklmort).

Definitions for kilometer

noun

  1. a unit of length, the common measure of distances equal to 1000 meters, and equivalent to 3280.8 feet or 0.621 mile. Abbreviation: km.

Origin of kilometer

From the French word kilomètre, dating back to 1800-10. See kilo-, meter1

Examples for kilometer

While traveling along the 40 kilometer route, make sure to stop in some of the quaint villages, particularly Beuvron-en-Auge.

Scarcely a kilometer ahead they came to a wall of lava that barred their path.

There is a road about every kilometer and they run roughly northwest and northeast.

Her clothes and purse were found a kilometer away with money still in her wallet.

The 1st Battalion went to Juvancourt, about a kilometer distant.

They made that kilometer from source to target, literally, in nothing flat.

Several people have been killed by artillery shells from Syria that landed on the Turkish side of the 900 kilometer border.

It is little more than a kilometer from here to the village.

That means it probably flew back up as much as a kilometer before coming back down.

He also says the “spirit of Eataly is contrary to the Slow Food movement or zero kilometer initiative to eat local.”

Word Value for kilometer
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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