SQUARE MILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does square mile mean? 

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

1. an area of 640 acres

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SQUARE MILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area of 640 acres

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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

area unit; square measure (a system of units used to measure areas)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "square mile"):

section (a land unit equal to 1 square mile)

 Context examples 

The area in the United States comprised of a 68 square mile area northeast of the Potomac River donated by the state of Maryland.

(District of Columbia, NCI Thesaurus)

Fashion and speech and manners may change, but the spirit of enterprise within that square mile or two of land must not change, for when it withers all that has grown from it must wither also.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)