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▸ noun: Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
▸ noun: Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
▸ noun: The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
▸ noun: Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
▸ noun: (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
▸ noun: (informal) Any similarly large distance.
▸ noun: (slang) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
▸ noun: (slang) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
▸ noun: A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Миле (Mile)
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statute mile,
Roman mile,
Swedish mile,
land mile,
nautical mile,
air mile,
sea mile,
mi,
knot,
admiralty mile,
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