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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]miler (plural milers)
- (sports, often in combination) An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles.
- 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.
- (in combination) A race whose length is the specified number of miles.
- I ran an eight-miler on Sunday and I'm still feeling sore.
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[edit]Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]miler m (plural milers)
- a set of one thousand
- Synonym: milenar
- a quantity of roughly one thousand
- Synonym: milenar
- 2020 December 12, David Bueno, “10 coses que encara no sabem del cervell [10 things we still don't know about the brain]”, in Ara[1]:
- Encara més: els òrgans dels sentits estan formats per milers de cèl·lules receptores que envien cadascuna el seu propi missatge al cervell.
- On top of that, our sensory organs are made up of thousands of receptor cells that each send their own message to the brain.
Usage notes
[edit]- 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 milenar are used.
Further reading
[edit]- “miler” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “miler”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “miler” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “miler” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]miler c
- indefinite plural of mile
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]miler f
- (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of mil
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]miler f
- indefinite plural of mile
- indefinite plural of mila (non-standard since 2012)
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