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Mile mile

Spelling: [mahyl]

IPA: /maɪl/

Mile is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Mile (eilm).

Definitions for Mile

noun

1. Also called statute mile. a unit of distance on land in English-speaking countries equal to 5280 feet, or 1760 yards (1.609 kilometers).
2. nautical mile.
3. international nautical mile.
4. any of various other units of distance or length at different periods and in different countries. Compare Roman mile.
5. a notable distance or margin: Abbreviation: mi, mi.

Origin of Mile

before 1000; Middle English; Old English mīl Latin mīlia (passuum) a thousand (paces)

Examples for Mile

At 11:00 a.m., a group of 40 young people, mostly teenagers, rallied at a subway station about a mile from the airport.

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

The incident occurred just one mile from the Garner incident.

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

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

Then she managed to struggle a mile through dark, rainy woods.

So I went home—we only lived about a quarter mile away—and I got on my bicycle and rode back, and he was in the donut shop.

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

Each one seems a mile high, and the entire flight an insurmountable obstacle.

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