Usually means: Unit of length, 5280 feet.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word mile:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. mile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mile: Merriam-Webster
  3. mile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mile: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mile: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mile, mile, mile, mile: Wordnik
  8. mile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mile: Wiktionary
  10. mile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mile: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. mile: Dictionary.com
  14. mile: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Mile (Visoko), Mile (city), Mile (disambiguation), Mile (medieval location), Mile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mile: Rhymezone
  20. mile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. MILE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. mile: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. mile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. mile: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. mile: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. mile: FreeDictionary.org

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mile: Global Glossary

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Mile: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MILE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. mile: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mile: Easton Bible
  2. Mile: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mile: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Mile: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
  3. mile: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  4. Mile: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Mile: A Seattle Lexicon
  2. The Mile, mile: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. mile: Chapters in the Sky
  4. Mile: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
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:  (athletics) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
noun:  (colloquial) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
noun:  A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Миле (Mile)

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