mileage
English
/ˈmaɪlədʒ/, /ˈmaɪlɪdʒ/
noun
Definitions
- The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles.
- The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel.
- An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile.
- (informal) The amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future.
- (informal) Something worth taking into consideration.
Etymology
Suffix from English mile (imperial measure of distance).
Origin
English
mile
Gloss
imperial measure of distance
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mailoland English
- metric mile English
- mile English
- mile marker English
- milecastle English
- milelong English
- milepost English
- miler English
- milestone English
- milewide English
- milometer English
- postmile English
- seat-mile English
- seatmile English
- maili Finnish
- mile French
- mille French
- マイル Japanese
- 哩 Japanese
- myle Middle English
- ไมล์ Thai
- milio Ido
- မိုင် Burmese
- מייל Hebrew (modern)
- 哩 Chinese
- 邁 Chinese
- maili Swahili
- 마일 Korean
- imayela Zulu
- mail Tok Pisin
- མེ་ལེ Tibetan
- mwail Chuukese
- mail Fiji Hindi