1. A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
   "The road sign indicated it was 5 statute miles to the next town"; "The marathon is approximately 26.2 land miles";
   - statute mile, stat mi, land mile, international mile, mi, ml
    
2. A unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
   "The pilot calculated the flight distance in international nautical miles";
   - nautical mile, mi, naut mi, international nautical mile, air mile
    
3. A former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile
   "Ships calculate their speed in nautical miles per hour";
   - nautical mile, naut mi, mi, geographical mile, Admiralty mile
    
4. An ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
   "The Roman roads were marked with stones at each Roman mile";
   - Roman mile
    
5. A Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
   "The distance to Stockholm was marked as three Swedish miles";
   - mil, Swedish mile
    
6. A large distance
   "he missed by a mile"
    
7. A footrace extending one mile
   "he holds the record in the mile"

Derived forms: miles

Type of: large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, linear measure, linear unit, nautical linear unit, track event

Part of: league

Encyclopedia: Mile, Yunnan