English

Noun

miler ‎(plural milers)

1. (sports) An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile (often used in a compound with a number or fraction)
   • 1905, E.W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night

     But the master himself was an old Oxford miler, who could still bear it better than I; nay, as I flagged and stumbled, I heard him pounding steadily behind.

   • 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, Through the Magic Door

     The champion sprinter is seldom a five-miler as well.

Derived terms

• half-miler
• quarter-miler

Translations

Anagrams

• limer

Catalan

Noun

miler m ‎(plural milers)

1. a set of one thousand
2. a number only resolvable to the nearest thousand in quantity

Synonyms

• milenar

Usage notes

Rather than using the feminine ordinal (milena or mil·lèsima‎) as the word for a set of one thousand as is usual, for one thousand miler and its synonym are used.

Danish

Noun

miler c

1. plural indefinite of mile