Dictionary Entry
mile
mile is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.
- 2noun
a footrace extending one mile
"he holds the record in the mile"
- 3noun
a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
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- 4noun
a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
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- 5noun
an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
- 6noun
a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
- 7noun
a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile
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- 8noun
a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)
- 9noun
a large distance
"he missed by a mile"
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