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miles meaning

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    Definition of miles in English Dictionary

  • NounBFmile
    1. plural of mile.
      1. (slang) A great distance.
        1. His final shot missed the bullseye by miles.
        2. From the top of the hill you can see for miles.
        3. No need to hurry. The deadline is miles away.
    2. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • We had run above twenty miles when the sun set, carpeting the sea, and tapestrying the sky with a rare unison of delicate green and golden hues [ …]
        • With today's fifty mile per hour winds, all the ski lifts are on windhold.
        • Agent Miles has been tracking the terrorist since Madrid.
      2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
        • From a semiconstructed building in the middle of a cornfield into the bathroom floor of his cell in the Altiplano prison, its length is greater than a mile.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Nouns
        • Noun forms
          • Noun plural forms
      Related Links:
      1. fr miles
      2. en milestone
      3. en milestones
      4. en milestoned
      5. en milestoning
      Source: Wiktionary

      Meaning of miles for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "miles" is a noun, more specifically, a noun form.
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