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The correct spelling is miles.
How to pronounce miles
/maɪlz/
nounIPA: /maɪlz/
Say it like: Mil-es
The correct spelling is miles. 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. For example: "The shot missed by a mile."
Usage Examples
“The shot missed by a mile.”
“The runners competed in the mile.”
“five miles over the speed limit”
Meanings
noun
- 1.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.
- 2.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.
- 3.Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
- 4.The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
- 5.Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).
adverb
- 1.Much; a lot (used to emphasise a comparative)
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