mile

Meile

The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards

• This river is 500 miles long.

  Dieser Fluss ist 800 km lang.

  Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR

• It's a mile from here.

  Von hier aus sind es 1½ km.

  Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR

Meile

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

Meile

Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feetselten

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The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889selten

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Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mileselten

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An airline mile in a frequent flyer programselten

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Any similarly large distanceselten

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A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length — usually 1500 or 1600 metersselten

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One mile per hour, as a measure of speedselten

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A prominent road or street, often roughly a mile longselten