Meile — meaning in English

English meaning

• league noun A group of sports teams, or of countries or organizations, that compete together or work toward a shared goal.
• mile noun A unit of distance equal to 1,760 yards, or about 1.6 kilometres.

Senses

Meile is used for these senses in English:

• Roman mile An ancient Roman unit of itinerant distance of 1000 paces (mille passus, hence also "mile" from Latin mille, "1000"). Indirectly standardized to 5000 Roman feet by Agrippa in 29 BC. In modern times, Agrippa's Imperial Roman mile is empirically estimated to have been around 1481 meters (1620 yards, 4860 English feet, 0.92 English miles); compared with a modern mile, which is 5280 feet.
• league A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

league — full definition

1. noun A group of sports teams, or of countries or organizations, that compete together or work toward a shared goal.
2. noun An old unit of distance, roughly three miles, based on how far a person could walk in an hour.
3. verb To join together with others for a common purpose.

mile — full definition

1. noun A unit of distance equal to 1,760 yards, or about 1.6 kilometres.
2. noun A race run over roughly this distance.
3. noun A great distance, used loosely and figuratively.

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