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[ noun ] a unit of length equal to half of 1 mile

Synonyms

880_yards

Used in print

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

The crowd at the twenty-first annual K._of_C._Games , final indoor meet of the season , got a thrill a_few minutes earlier when a slender , bespectacled woman broke the one week old world_record in the half-mile run .

(Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)

A scant half_mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace , the air about them scented with stock , and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime_tree at the foot of the garden .

Related terms

linear_unit mile

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