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

The Kern County girl was found in Elk Grove, hundreds of miles from her home, with 27-year-old Matthew Macatuno Naval, the county Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

From Los Angeles Times

But decades on, what has been described as "the strongest evidence yet" of life on another world has come, not from Mars or Venus, but from a planet hundreds of trillions of miles away orbiting a distant star.

From BBC

K2-18b is two and a half times the size of Earth and is seven hundred trillion miles away from us.

From BBC

The Tijuana River flows 120 miles, starting in Baja California and crossing into Southern California, then reaching the Pacific Ocean in Imperial Beach.

From Los Angeles Times

At the edge of space, which is roughly 65 miles or 100 km above our planet, these electrojets carry currents of up to a million amps of electricity.

From Salon

Related Words

• deep
• distant
• long