WordNet
half mile
n. a unit of length equal to half of 1 mile [syn: 880 yards]
Usage examples of "half mile".
Just for the last half mile we turn south into the valley of the Weisse Elster.
The mouth of the canyon road Kris Lamplear had described was less than a half mile away.
Another half mile downstream, their ears picked up an ominous organlike crescendo of sound from ahead-the bass roar of the river plunging through its narrowing, rock-fanged blockade.
Rick drove a half mile up the road to where he had a good view of several hundred yards and stopped the jeep.