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Symbol

mil

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Peñoles Mixtec.

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Latin millesimum. The clippings come by way of the clipped words (e.g., millilitre, millimetre, milliradian).

Noun

mil (plural mils)

  1. An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to 16400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also 16000 and 16300 are used in other countries.
  2. A unit of measurement equal to 11000 of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
    Alternative form: mill
    Synonym: thou
    For this task, I prefer the plastic sheeting that is 10 mils thick.
  3. A former subdivision (11000) of the Maltese lira.
  4. (informal) Clipping of milliliter
    Synonyms: mL, ml, cm³, cc
    We told her to give her daughter ten mils of cough syrup and to call us back if the cough gets worse.
  5. (informal) Clipping of millimeter
    Alternative form: mill
    Synonym: mm
    For this task, I prefer the plastic bars that are 10 mils in diameter.
    • 2025, Gupi, “kutna hora”, performed by Food House:
      Party like it's 2024, hear a knocking at my door / It's the police let them in, bust a 9 mil through their skin
  6. (informal) Clipping of milliradian
    A dot in a mil-dot reticle represents one mil, which corresponds to a few inches at 100 yards.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

Clipping of million.

Noun

mil (plural mil)

  1. (informal) Clipping of million
    Word has it that they were offered a cool ten mil to sell their farm to the land developers.
    • 2009, Bob Frey, The DVD Murders, page 39:
      The cheapest shack in this part of the woods would probably set the buyer back at least a couple of mil.
    • 2010 September, Galen Gondolfi, "Idea Fun(d)", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 79:
      You can get things done without money, but you can do a hell of a lot more with it, and $10 mil is a good starting point.

Etymology 3

Clipping of military.

Adjective

mil (not comparable)

  1. Clipping of military
Derived terms

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Aragonese

Etymology

Akin to Spanish mil, from Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil

  1. thousand

Asturian

Asturian cardinal numbers
 <  999 1000 1001  > 
    Cardinal : mil
    Ordinal : milésimu

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil (indeclinable)

  1. one thousand; 1000
    mil llobosone thousand wolves
    mil vaquesone thousand cows

Usage notes

In compound numbers, mil does not inflect or change:

  • mil dosone thousand two
  • mil trenta y nueveone thousand thirty-nine
  • tres milthree thousand
  • venti miltwenty thousand
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Breton

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Cornish mil, Welsh mil, Irish míle.

Numeral

mil

  1. thousand

Etymology 2

From Middle Breton mil, from Proto-Brythonic *mil (compare Cornish mil, Welsh mil), from Proto-Celtic *mīlom (compare Old Irish míl and its descendants; Irish míol, Scottish Gaelic míl, Manx meeyl), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (small animal”).

Compare Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, lamb), Dutch maal (calf).

Noun

mil m (plural miled)

  1. (rare) animal
    Synonyms: aneval, loen

Mutation

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Catalan

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan mil, from Latin mīlle, from Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī, from Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ (one thousand).

Pronunciation

Numeral

mil m or f

  1. (cardinal number) thousand

Noun

mil m (plural mils)

  1. thousand

Further reading

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Cebuano

More information 1,000 ...

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mil, from Old Spanish mil, mill, from Latin mīlle.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mil

Numeral

mil

  1. thousand

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mil.

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Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish mil (thousand).

Numeral

mil

  1. thousand

Cornish

More information 1000 1,000 ...

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Latin mīlia. Cognate with Breton and Welsh mil.

Numeral

mil

  1. one thousand

Noun

mil f (plural milyow)

  1. thousand
Derived terms
  • milblek (thousandfold)
  • mildros (millipede)
  • milves (thousandth)
  • milvil (million)
  • milvledhen (millennium)
  • milweyth (thousandfold)

Etymology 2

From Middle Cornish mil, myl, from Old Cornish mil, Proto-Brythonic *mil, from Proto-Celtic *mīlom, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₁l- (small animal”). Cognate with Breton mil, Irish míol, Manx meeyl, Scottish Gaelic mial, and Welsh mil.

Noun

mil m (plural miles)

  1. animal
Derived terms

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Noun

mil m

  1. honey

Danish

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Etymology

Borrowed through Low German, from Latin mil(l)ia (passum) "thousand (steps)."

Pronunciation

Noun

mil

  1. mile, unit of length of varying value

Declension

More information common gender, singular ...

Derived terms

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Esperanto

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīlle. Doublet of mejlo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mil/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -il
  • Hyphenation: mil

Numeral

mil

  1. thousand

Estonian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmil/, [ˈmil]
  • Hyphenation: mil

Etymology 1

Clipping of millal.

Conjunction

mil

  1. when
    Kord tuleb päev, mil tuleb minna.
    There will once be a day when we have to go.

Etymology 2

Clipping of millel.

Adverb

mil (not comparable)

  1. that
    Tänaval oli auto, mil olid punased triibud.
    There was a car on the street that had red stripes.

French

Etymology

From Latin milium.

Pronunciation

Noun

mil m (plural mils)

  1. (now dialectal) millet
    Synonym: millet

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin mīlle.

Numeral

mil

  1. thousand

Galician

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Irish

Kabuverdianu

Ladin

Ladino

Louisiana Creole

Lule

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