miler

From mile +‎ -er.

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪləɹ/

miler (plural milers)

1. (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.

   • 1972 January 28, “Sports of The Times”, in The New York Times‎:

     Indeed, with a world record‐holder or Olympic champion in almost every race, with six milers who have broken 4 minutes, eight high jumpers who can top 7 feet and seven pole vaulters who have cleared 17 feet, there is no way guessing how many Olympic champions‐elect will be on display in the hatbox over Penn Station.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:miler.
2. (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.

   • 1993 November 11, Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr., “NEW YORK CITY MARATHON; An American Sets Her Sights High”, in The New York Times‎:

     There were some impressive victories, but Fleming believes her most important race was the second of two close second-place finishes to Pippig, one in the Peachtree 10-K in Atlanta in July and the second in a seven-miler in Davenport, Iowa, a week later.

   • 2007 July 15, Gerri Hirshey, “Sisterhood of the Walking Shoe”, in The New York Times‎:

     They started with a mile; by January, they were hitting the trails at Bear Mountain at 7 a.m. on Saturdays for a brisk eight-miler.

   • 2010 March 3, Gina Kolata, “Winter Training: Faster and Safer Indoors?”, in The New York Times‎:

     Mr. Sell continued, “If it’s really icy out or if it’s negative 10 degrees and you are doing an easy six-miler, it probably makes a lot more sense to do it on a treadmill than to risk hurting anything.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:miler.

• extra-miler
• half-miler
• quarter-miler

• Ilmer, Imler, Rimel, limer

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

miler m (plural milers)

1. a set of one thousand

   Synonym: milenar

2. a quantity of roughly one thousand

   Synonym: milenar

   • 2020 December 12, David Bueno, “10 coses que encara no sabem del cervell ”, in Ara‎:

     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.

• 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.

• “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.

miler c

1. indefinite plural of mile

miler f

1. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of mil

miler f

1. indefinite plural of mile
2. indefinite plural of mila (non-standard since 2012)