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# chile

«chile» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long, narrow country in South America, between the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Chile — a country; chile — a hot pepper, chiles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Chile is a long, narrow country in South America, between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chile/#m1)

2) A chile (also chili or chilli) is a small hot-tasting pepper used in cooking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chile/#m2)

3) Chile can also be a friendly dialect word, used in some Southern American speech, meaning child or dear, when speaking to a young person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chile/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons, Chile is one of the longest, thinnest countries in the world; it has deserts in the north, ice in the south, and its capital is Santiago. In everyday cooking, chiles make food spicy. Phrases: in Chile, red chile, green chile.

### examples

- Chile is a country in South America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chile/#x1)
- The capital of Chile is Santiago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chile/#x2)
- Chile is very long and narrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chile/#x3)
- The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the driest places on Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chile/#x4)
- This sauce has green chile in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chile/#x5)
- Wash your hands after cutting a chile, and don't touch your eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chile/#x6)
- Chile is next to Argentina. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chile/#x7)

### note

The country has a capital C: Chile. Spellings of the pepper: chile (US, especially Mexican food), chili (US), chilli (UK, Australia, NZ). Homophone: chilly (cold). Safety: chile juice burns the eyes.

### In the corpora

- [The strongest earthquake ever recorded was in Chile in 1960, magnitude about 9.5.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/9/)
- [Telescopes such as ALMA in Chile have photographed dusty discs around young stars where new planets are forming right now.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/16/)
- [Big telescopes are built on high, dry mountains such as Mauna Kea in Hawaii and the Atacama Desert in Chile.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/27-telescopes-and-light/9/)
- [Rubin Observatory in Chile released its first images in 2025.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/27-telescopes-and-light/17/)
- [The Atacama Desert in Chile, beside the Pacific Ocean, is one of the driest places on Earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/50-why-the-earth-is-so/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chile» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chile/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.