mile

Questions about mile

What is another word for mile?

It depends which mile you mean. In the sense “a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters”, the synonyms are statute mile, stat mi, land mile, international mile, mi. Across all 8 senses there are 15 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of mile?

WordNet records no antonym for mile. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Why are the synonyms for mile split into groups?

Because mile carries 8 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for mile come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of mile

• Full entry for mileAll 8 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for mileWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.