A unit of length or distance equal to 1,000 meters (approximately 0.62 miles).
"The park is just two kilometers from here," the woman told her friend.
The hiker checked his watch after walking 10 kilometers.
✦ From French kilomètre, from kilo- ("thousand") + mètre ("meter"), introduced with the metric system in the 18th century.
a unit of length equal to 1000 metres
The local shop is just 500 metres or half a kilometer away.
Our road trip covered 300 kilometers in one day.
✦ From French kilomètre (first used 1810), from kilo- ('thousand') + mètre ('metre'), as part of the metric system introduced during the French Revolution.
