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say it: mahyl
mile is a noun meaning "a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters". It is pronounced /ˈmaɪl/ — mahyl. It carries 8 recorded senses.
a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)
a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile
an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mile come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.