Miles

[ mahylz ]

noun

1. Nelson Appleton, 1839–1925, U.S. army officer.
2. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “merciful.”

Miles

/ maɪlz /

noun

1. MilesBernard, Baron Miles of Blackfriars19071991MBritishTHEATRE: actorTHEATRE: theatre manager Bernard, Baron Miles of Blackfriars. 1907–91, British actor and theatre manager. He founded the Mermaid Theatre in London, and was known as a character actor

Example Sentences

In this war, the targeting is often happening on computer monitors thousands of miles away, capturing images from drones.

From The Daily Beast

Travel Noire fellows earned about a half million travel miles in 2014.

From The Daily Beast

Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone.

From The Daily Beast

Miles of Soviet era housing projects sat along on the ocean.

From The Daily Beast

Casino resorts thrive in the Bahamas and have a presence in almost every port of call for hundreds of miles.

From The Daily Beast

I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

From Project Gutenberg

Before daybreak we had ridden five and twenty miles, but had been compelled to abandon two more guns.

From Project Gutenberg

And it was no light task, then, for six hundred men to keep the peace on a thousand miles of frontier.

From Project Gutenberg

Fully two miles away, on the south side of the ravine, were the sepoy lines, and another group of isolated bungalows.

From Project Gutenberg

I presume this path does not extend many miles without meeting impediments.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• deep
• distant
• long