mile – English noun declension

English noun forms of mile

Noun: mile
Singularmile
Pluralmiles

Sample Sentences

  • Turn left in 1.2 miles.
  • You need to go about three mile down the road.
  • 3.6 km is about 2 miles.
  • 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, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2021, page 52:]
  • Total activity levels in the lowest quartile were equivalent to walking for 49 minutes at roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per hour daily. Total activity levels in the second-, third- and fourth-highest quartiles were equivalent to 78, 105 and 160 minutes, respectively. [2024 November 15, Kristen Rogers, “Want to live an extra 5 to 10 years? Adopt this habit, study suggests”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2025:]
  • The shot missed by a mile.
  • My legs felt stiff and leaden from miles of walking.
  • The runners competed in the mile.
  • five miles over the speed limit

Nouns inflected like mile

furlong, schnitzel, month, pound, bushel, acre, lion, mile, pair, year, yard,

Etymology

From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *mīliju, a borrowing of Latin mīlia, mīllia, plural of mīle, mīlle (“mile”) (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of mīlle passūs (“a thousand paces”)). See: Middle English Nouns 'myle', Latin Nouns 'mīlia'.

Verbs referencing "mile"

French Nouns mile, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns mil, Finnish Nouns maili, Spanish Nouns milla, Zulu Nouns imayela, English Nouns mailoland.