mil.
mile; a unit of length, especially road length, varying by time and country
Meaning & usage
mile; a unit of length, especially road length, varying by time and country
old Norwegian mile; a former Norwegian unit of length equal to about 11.3 kilometres
Scandinavian mile; a metric unit of length equal to 10 kilometres
Det er fire mil dit.
Bilen bruker 0,7 liter bensin på mila.
used in names of certain other units of length
nautical mile
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.
nine men's morris; a board game for two players
mill; a row of three pieces in mil (“nine men's morris”)
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