Meaning of "Swedish mile" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF SWEDISH MILE

Swedish mile

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SWEDISH MILE

Swedish mile is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SWEDISH MILE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Scandinavian mile

A mil is a unit of distance, most often used to measure geographic distance, very common in Norway and Sweden, though not used in Denmark, and only occasionally used in Finland by the Swedish-speaking population. Today, it measures by definition 10 kilometres, (≈6.2 (statute) miles) but earlier in history it had different values. The word is derived from the same source as English mile, a measurement which historically has had many different definitions throughout Europe. In Sweden and Norway, a (statute) mile is often called "engelsk mil", lit. English mil(e).

Definition of Swedish mile in the English dictionary

The definition of Swedish mile in the dictionary is a unit of length used in Sweden, equal to 10 kilometres.

TRANSLATION OF SWEDISH MILE

Find out the translation of Swedish mile to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of Swedish mile from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Swedish mile» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 瑞典公里
• Translator English - Spanish: millas sueca
• English: Swedish mile
• Translator English - Hindi: स्वीडिश मील
• Translator English - Arabic: ميل السويدية
• Translator English - Russian: Шведский км
• Translator English - Portuguese: milha sueca
• Translator English - Bengali: সুইডিশ মাইল
• Translator English - French: mile suédois
• Translator English - Malay: Batu Sweden
• Translator English - German: schwedische Meile
• Translator English - Japanese: スウェーデンのマイル
• Translator English - Korean: 스웨덴어 마일
• Translator English - Javanese: Mil Swedia
• Translator English - Vietnamese: dặm Thụy Điển
• Translator English - Tamil: ஸ்வீடிஷ் மைல்
• Translator English - Marathi: स्वीडिश मैल
• Translator English - Turkish: İsveç mili
• Translator English - Italian: mile svedese
• Translator English - Polish: Szwedzki km
• Translator English - Ukrainian: шведський км
• Translator English - Romanian: mile suedeză
• Translator English - Greek: Σουηδική μίλι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: Sweedse myl
• Translator English - Swedish: svensk mil
• Translator English - Norwegian: svensk mile

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWEDISH MILE»

Discover the use of Swedish mile in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Swedish mile and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware, 1638-1664

22 A Swedish mile of that period was longer than the modern Swedish mile, being 18,000 alnar or " 36,000 pedibus " or about 6.62 English miles. 23 " In Saxony a mile is 4,000 paces, in other places in Germany 5,000 paces." A pace was 5 ...

Amandus Johnson, 1996

A journal of the Swedish ambassy: in the years MDCLIII and ...

The countrey is very stony, uneaven, and barren ; att every quarter of a swedish mile a post is sett up, and in some places great stones, after the manner of the Romans, whose phrase was quot lapides ? how many. stones is it ? for how many ...

Bulstrode Whitlocke, Charles Morton, 1772

A hand-book for travellers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Russia

English. 20 lhs. = Lispund = 22 lbs. English. 20 Lispund = Shippund = 440 lbs. English. SWEDISH MEASURES. Swedish ell = 2 English feet nearly. Swedish mile = 6§ English miles. 1 Victualie pound = 15 ounces English nearly. 20 Viel. lbs.

John Murray (publishers.), 1839

Statesman's Yearbook

2s., per Swedish mile, while the expenditure, as compared with the revenue, was reduced from 98 to 65 per cent. Moreover, the net revenue, from having been at first 0 092 per cent, on the capital expended for the construction of the state ...

Frederick Martin, Sir John Scott Keltie, Isaac Parker Anderson Renwick, 1878

A Journal Of The Swedish Ambassy In The Years M.DC.LIII. And ...

The countrey is very stony, uneaven, and barren ; att every quarter of a swedish mile a post is sett up, and in some places great stones, after the manner of die Romans, whose phrase was quot lapides ? how many stones is it ? for how many  ...

Bulstrode Whitlocke, 1772

The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review Or ...

Within a Swedish mile and a half of Malmo lies the town or city of Lund, containing about 6000 inhabitants. During the warm months of July and of the early part of August, numerous case3 of diarrhoea occurred in Lund, but not more than are ...

‎1854

A Spring and Summer in Lapland

If he sends forward a messenger or " forbud" in advance (which will cost him, perhaps, 6d. the Swedish mile), the horses will be ready for him; but he must not keep them waiting, or he will have to pay for the peasant's time. I observed, however ...

Old bushman, Horace William Wheelwright, 1871

A spring and summer in Lapland; with notes on the fauna of ...

If he sends forward a messenger or " forbud" in advance (which will cost him, perhaps, 6d. the Swedish mile), the horses will be ready for him ; but he must not keep them waiting, or he will have to pay for the peasant's time. I observed ...

Horace William Wheelwright, 1864

A Spring and Summer in Lapland: with notes on the fauna of ...

If he sends forward a messenger-or“ forbud” in advance (which will cost him, perhaps, 6d. the Swedish mile), the horses will be ready for him; but he must not keep them waiting, or he will have to pay for the peasant's time. I observed, however ...

‎1864

A Spring and Summer in Lapland

If he sends forward a messenger or " forbud" in advance (which will cost him, perhaps, 6d. the Swedish mile), the horses will be ready for him; but he must not keep them waiting, or he will have to pay for the peasant's time. I observed, however ...

Horace William Wheelwright, 1871