HALF MILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does half mile mean? 

• HALF MILE (noun)
  The noun HALF MILE has 1 sense:

1. a unit of length equal to half of 1 mile

  Familiarity information: HALF MILE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALF MILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of length equal to half of 1 mile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

880 yards; half mile

Hypernyms ("half mile" is a kind of...):

linear measure; linear unit (a unit of measurement of length)

Holonyms ("half mile" is a part of...):

international mile; land mile; mi; mile; stat mi; statute mile (a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters)

 Context examples 

These newly-discovered frozen peaks are estimated to be one-half mile to one mile (1-1.5 kilometers) high.

(New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)

Scientists estimate it is probably no more than about a half mile in diameter.

(Possible New Moon Forming Around Saturn, NASA)

Winthrop, however, or its environs—for young men are, sometimes to be met with, strolling about near home—was their destination; and after another half mile of gradual ascent through large enclosures, where the ploughs at work, and the fresh made path spoke the farmer counteracting the sweets of poetical despondence, and meaning to have spring again, they gained the summit of the most considerable hill, which parted Uppercross and Winthrop, and soon commanded a full view of the latter, at the foot of the hill on the other side.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

In the Argonne Forest I took two machine-gun detachments so far forward that there was a half mile gap on either side of us where the infantry couldn't advance.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)