noun
- an ancient Roman unit of distance equal to 1,000 paces or about 4,850 feet
Usage: historical
Examples
- The Roman road stretched for twenty milliare through the countryside.
- Ancient milestones marked each milliare along the Via Appia.
- A milliare was roughly equivalent to 0.92 modern miles.
- Roman legions could march about fifteen milliare in a day.
- The distance between the two cities was recorded as eight milliare.