sea mile

1. 1.

   a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)

   Synonymsmile

   Broadernautical linear unit

Questions about sea mile

What does sea mile mean?

sea mile means "a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)".

What is another word for sea mile?

Close synonyms include mile. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sea mile a common word?

sea mile is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.