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miles
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Wiktionary
milesnoun
A great distance.
Milesnoun
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Clad in doublet and hose, and boots of Cordovan leather, / Strode, with a martial air, Miles Standish the Puritan Captain.
Milesnoun
A patronymic surname, also derived from a Middle English form of Michael.
Etymology: From given name Milo, of problematic origin, possibly from an unknown element, or a short form of names beginning with mil- "grace, favor". The English form is associated by folk etymology with Latin miles.
Wikidata
Miles
Miles is a small town in Queensland, Australia. At the 2006 census, Miles had a population of 1,164. The town is situated on the Warrego Highway, 340 kilometres west of Brisbane, the state capital. Formerly known as Dogwood Crossing, the town is situated on Dogwood Creek, named by German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt in 1844. The town was renamed Miles in honour of the Queensland Colonial Secretary, William Miles.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
MILES
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Miles is ranked #368 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Miles surname appeared 84,942 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 29 would have the surname Miles.
61.3% or 52,095 total occurrences were White.
32.3% or 27,479 total occurrences were Black.
2.6% or 2,217 total occurrences were of two or more races.
2.4% or 2,073 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.7% or 663 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.4% or 416 total occurrences were Asian.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'miles' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1066
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'miles' in Written Corpus Frequency: #947
Anagrams for miles »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of miles in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of miles in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of miles in a Sentence
Army Brigadier General Ernie Audino:
The Turks fear the development of such a contiguous Kurdish-controlled region (in Syria) perhaps more than anything else … the Kurds now control territory that stretches from the Iraqi border in the East, through Qamishli to Kobani and to within 90 kilometers [55 miles] of Aleppo.
It doesn't matter if you don't know anything about racing, that is what we really had to struggle with. ... You can get a film where you can get absolutely devoted to beautiful shots of bumpers and engines and all that. But this essentially comes down to a story about this incredible friendship but told at, you know, 230 miles an hour.
Retaining Bagram would have required putting as many as five thousand U.S. troops in harm's way, just to operate and defend it. And Retaining Bagram would have contributed little to the mission that we had been assigned, and that was to protect and defend our embassy which was some 30 miles away, staying at Bagram -- even for counter - terrorism purposes -- meant staying at war in Afghanistan, something that the President made clear that he would not do.
The subsequent search covered 144,000 square miles using 48 aircraft and 8 surface vessels, but nothing was found, this was a very extensive search operation, possibly the largest area searched for a missing plane prior to the search for MH370.
Debra Suierveld said about her daughter. Days before, about 10 miles away from the Suierveld home, George Speiring said he opened the door to his home and spotted a lab mix on his porch. He said he called police and the dog, which turned out to be Abby, eventually ended up at the animal shelter. The animal shelter then found the chip that connected Abby to her rightful owner. Abby looked almost like she never left home, aside from graying hair and a benign tumor. Her teeth are in good shape, her paws are in good shape, somebody took very good care of her.
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Translations for miles
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- اميالArabic
- míleCzech
- milesDanish
- MeilenGerman
- μίλιαGreek
- mejlojEsperanto
- millasSpanish
- مایلPersian
- mailiaFinnish
- milesFrench
- मील की दूरी परHindi
- mérföldreHungarian
- milIndonesian
- migliaItalian
- stomachHebrew
- マイルJapanese
- ಮೈಲಿಗಳುKannada
- 마일Korean
- milia passuumLatin
- mijlenDutch
- milesNorwegian
- milePolish
- milhasPortuguese
- mileRomanian
- мильRussian
- milesSwedish
- மைல்ஸ்Tamil
- మైళ్ళTelugu
- ไมล์Thai
- milTurkish
- миліUkrainian
- میلUrdu
- dặmVietnamese
- מיילYiddish
- 英里Chinese
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