million
a cardinal number, a thousand times one thousand.
a symbol for this number, as 1,000,000 or M̅.
millions, a number between 1,000,000 and 999,999,999, as in referring to an amount of money: His fortune was in the millions of dollars.
the amount of a thousand thousand units of money, as dollars, pounds, or euros: The three Dutch paintings fetched a million.
a very great number of times: Thanks a million.
the million(s), the mass of the common people; the multitude: poetry for the millions.
amounting to one million in number.
amounting to a very great number: a million things to do.
Origin of million
1Other words from million
- mul·ti·mil·lion, noun
Words Nearby million
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How to use million in a sentence
Once that happened, the combined approximately 3 million landing pages exploded in SERPs.
She was talking about operationalizing SEO and saying that anyone touching the website could be making multi-million-dollar SEO decisions without realizing it.
Power SEO Friendly Markup With HTML5, CSS3, And Javascript | Detlef Johnson | August 20, 2020 | Search Engine LandThe salt deposits are young—some just a couple of million years old.
The dwarf planet Ceres might be home to an underground ocean of water | Neel Patel | August 11, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewMost of its fossils date to the Mesozoic, between 252 and 66 million years ago.
These crocodile ancestors lived a two-legged life | Carolyn Gramling | July 23, 2020 | Science News For StudentsNow, a fossil bed of brachiopods in Yunnan, China, offers strong evidence for parasites from almost 100 million years earlier.
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Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
It was a very faithful homage to a Six million Dollar Man episode.
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS | Marlow Stern | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAccording to the USDA, student participation began to fall, with 1.4 million students opting out of the lunch program entirely.
In 2008, Huckabee raised a little over $16 million, with less than $55,000 coming from political action committees.
By contrast, John McCain, the eventual GOP nominee, had raised approximately $12.7 million in the first quarter of 2007 alone.
The moon was coming up, and its mystic shimmer was casting a million lights across the distant, restless water.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinClodd tells us that one cubic inch of rotten stone contains 41 thousand million vegetable skeletons of diatoms.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordWhat are a few paltry, lumps of crystallised carbon compared to a galaxy of a million million suns?
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordWe were then nine million small arm still to the good having spent eleven million.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonIn the first place, there is an immediate and urgent demand for at least Half a million comfortable rain-proof dwellings.
Glances at Europe | Horace Greeley
British Dictionary definitions for million
/ (ˈmɪljən) /
the cardinal number that is the product of 1000 multiplied by 1000: See also number (def. 1)
a numeral, 1 000 000, 10 6, M, etc, representing this number
(often plural) informal an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount: I have millions of things to do
(preceded by a or by a numeral)
amounting to a million: a million light years away
(as pronoun): I can see a million under the microscope
gone a million Australian informal done for; sunk
Origin of million
1Other words from million
- Related prefix: mega-
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with million
see feel like oneself (a million dollars); look like a million dollars; one in a million.
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