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# kilometre

«kilometre» in Mova's school dictionary: **a unit for long distances** — 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 (kilometre, kilometres; US spelling kilometer)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A kilometre is a unit for long distances. A kilometre is 1000 metres. It is written km. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kilometre/#m1)

2) A kilometre takes about 12 to 15 minutes to walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kilometre/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a unit of distance for trips, roads and speeds (kilometres per hour, km/h); changing km to m (× 1000). In geography: distances between towns and countries on maps. In everyday life: road signs in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland show km; the USA and UK use miles. Phrases: «kilometres per hour», «a 5-kilometre run», «kilometres away».

### examples

- The school is 2 kilometres away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kilometre/#x1)
- A car goes 60 kilometres an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kilometre/#x2)
- She walks 3 kilometres every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kilometre/#x3)
- 1 kilometre = 1000 metres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kilometre/#x4)
- The speed limit near the school is 40 kilometres an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kilometre/#x5)
- We ran a 5-kilometre fun run for charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kilometre/#x6)
- Half a kilometre is 500 metres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kilometre/#x7)
- The next town is 30 kilometres down the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kilometre/#x8)

### note

«Kilometre» (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland), «kilometer» (USA). «Kilo-» means 1000 (kilogram = 1000 grams). A mile is about 1.6 km. Maths: a unit: add km only to km; with «per hour» it makes a speed. Trap: mixing km and m without changing units.

### In the corpora

- [Tigers love water and swim well; Sundarbans tigers swim between islands in the mangroves of India and Bangladesh and can swim several kilometres.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/19-the-tiger/10/)
- [A galloping racehorse can reach about 70 kilometres an hour over a short distance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/10/)
- [Donkeys bray to call other donkeys, and the sound can carry about 3 kilometres across their desert homeland.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/14/)
- [Gibbons are small apes that sing loud duets, male and female together, heard about a kilometre away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/8/)
- [Swinging arm over arm is called brachiation; gibbons are the fastest apes in the trees, reported at around 50 kilometres per hour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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