Other forms: chiles
Chile is the impossibly long thin country along South America's Pacific coast. Travel to Chile, northern Chile, the coast of Chile.
It runs over four thousand kilometres from top to bottom and averages under two hundred wide, which gives it deserts, glaciers and everything between. The Atacama in the north is the driest place on earth, and its skies make it the best ground for telescopes.
1nounchileA country on the Pacific coast of South America.
“Chile is a long, narrow country squeezed between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean.”
chile is a country.
The name's origin is disputed, possibly from an indigenous word for the depths or the end of the earth.
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English, today
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From Spanish chile. A variant of chili; see that entry for more information.
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