Synonym of stadion (“a Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres”)
A unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile (220 yards, or 201.168 metres), now mainly used in measuring distances in farmland and horse racing.
Synonym of land (“the ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing”)
Synonym of headland (“unploughed boundary of a field”)
A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters)
Any similarly large distance.
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.
The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
One mile per hour, as a measure of speed.
Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese (里) or Arabic mile (al-mīl).
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.