How to pronounce mile
American English pronunciation
MYL
- IPA
- /ˈmaɪl/
- Syllables
- MYL (1 syllable)
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What mile means
A unit of distance equal to 5,280 feet
In a sentence: We walked a whole mile to get to the lake.
Where it comes from: It goes back to a Latin phrase meaning a thousand paces, the length of a thousand big steps.
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