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mil.

mile; a unit of length, especially road length, varying by time and country

3 characters1 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

noun/miːl/
  1. mile; a unit of length, especially road length, varying by time and country

    feminine · masculine
  2. old Norwegian mile; a former Norwegian unit of length equal to about 11.3 kilometres

    feminine · historical · masculine
  3. Scandinavian mile; a metric unit of length equal to 10 kilometres

    feminine · masculine
    Det er fire mil dit.
    Bilen bruker 0,7 liter bensin på mila.
  4. used in names of certain other units of length

    feminine · masculine
  5. nautical mile

    especially · feminine · masculine
    Skipet gjorde ti mils fart.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Norse míla (“mile”), from Latin milia passuum (“thousand paces”), from milia (“thousands”), plural of mille (“thousand”), and passuum, genitive plural of passus (“pace, step”). Doublet of mile (“English mile, statute mile”) and mille (“thousand”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk mil, Danish mil, Swedish mil, Icelandic míla, Faroese míla and English mile.

noun/miːl/
  1. nine men's morris; a board game for two players

    indeclinable
  2. mill; a row of three pieces in mil (“nine men's morris”)

    indeclinable
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