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"Road-distance unit"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (KILOMETRE).
Definitions
a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)
Word origin
From French kilomètre, from Ancient Greek χίλιοι (khílioi, “thousand”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”); equivalent to kilo- + metre.
Used in a sentence
“Holonyms: megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre”
“Meronyms: picometre < nanometre < micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre”
“When you fly over an undammed river like the Fraser I grew up with, the plume of silt spewed into the ocean is astonishing, a good three kilometres of brown refusing to mix with the green of the ocean.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Road-distance unit”9 letters
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