miler — English Dictionary

Noun

1. An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles.

   Usage

   • In compounds
   • often

   Examples

   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.

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

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   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.

2. A race whose length is the specified number of miles.

   Usage

   • In compounds

   Examples

   I ran an eight-miler on Sunday and I'm still feeling sore.

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   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.

   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.

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   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.”

Noun

1. (used only in combinations) the length of something in miles

   Broader terms

   linear unitlinear measure

   Examples

   the race was a 30-miler

2. a runner in a one-mile race

   Broader terms

   runner