Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for KI-LOM'E-TER
KI-LOM'E-TER, n. [Fr. kilometre; Gr. χιλιοι, a thousand, and μετρον, a meter.]
In the French system of measures, a thousand meters; the meter being the unit of linear measure. The kilometer is nearly equal to a quarter of a French league. – Lunier.
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