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Meaning of miles | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
[ˈmiː.ɫɛs]

Definitions

  1. A soldier.
  2. A knight.
    Medieval-Latin, declension-3
  3. A man in boardgames such as ludus latrunculi and chess.

Equivalents

English knight soldier

Examples

“mīles gregārius”

a private (lit., a "common soldier")

CEFR level

B1
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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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