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plural miles or (UK colloquial) mile
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. examples
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. quotations examples
Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
1892, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate: A Novel, page 16
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. […] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet. examples
The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889. examples
Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl). examples
(travel) An airline mile in a frequent flyer program. examples
(informal) Any similarly large distance. examples
(slang) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
(slang) One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.