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million
[ mil-yuhn ]
/ ĖmÉŖl yÉn /
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noun, plural milĀ·lions, (as after a numeral) milĀ·lion.
adjective
amounting to one million in number.
amounting to a very great number: a million things to do.
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Origin of million
First recorded in 1350ā1400; Middle English milioun, from Middle French, from Old Italian millione (Italian milione ), equivalent to mille āthousandā (from Latin mÄ«lle ) + -one, augmentative suffix
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mulĀ·tiĀ·milĀ·lion, nounWords nearby million
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British Dictionary definitions for million
million
/ (ĖmÉŖljÉn) /
noun plural -lions or -lion
the cardinal number that is the product of 1000 multiplied by 1000See also number (def. 1)
a numeral, 1Ā 000Ā 000, 10 6, M, etc, representing this number
(often plural) informal an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amountI have millions of things to do
determiner
(preceded by a or by a numeral)
- amounting to a milliona million light years away
- (as pronoun)I can see a million under the microscope
gone a million Australian informal done for; sunk
Other words from million
Related prefix: mega-Word Origin for million
C17: via Old French from early Italian millione, from mille thousand, from Latin
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Other Idioms and Phrases with million
million
see feel like oneself (a million dollars); look like a million dollars; one in a million.
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