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How to pronounce “mile”
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Pronunciation guide for mile
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of mile with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Find Your Extraordinary
So they ran a fifth of a mile in their backyard
- Definition summary
- 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.
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How to pronounce mile
Find Your Extraordinary
So they ran a fifth of a mile in their backyard
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “mile”
Meaning
- [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.
- 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.
- Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
- The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
- Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
- (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
- (informal) Any similarly large distance.
- (athletics) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
- (colloquial) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
- [Adverb]
- kindly, warmly
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