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million

[mil-yuh n]

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noun, plural mil·lions, (as after a numeral) mil·lion.

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 pounds, dollars, or francs: 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.

adjective

amounting to one million in number.

amounting to a very great number: a million things to do.

Origin of million

1350–1400; Middle English milioun < Middle French < early Italian millione, equivalent to mille thousand (< Latin) + -one augmentative suffix

Related formsmul·ti·mil·lion, noun

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Related Words for million

thousand, trillion, much, lot, total, sum, bank, ton, load, profusion, gathering, pot, scad, cluster, fullness, jumble, concentration, mint, bunch, mountain

Examples from the Web for million

Contemporary Examples of million

Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
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Michael Schulson
July 27, 2016
According to the USDA, student participation began to fall, with 1.4 million students opting out of the lunch program entirely.
The Republican War on Kale
Patricia Murphy
January 7, 2015
In 2008, Huckabee raised a little over $16 million, with less than $55,000 coming from political action committees.
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Lloyd Green
January 4, 2015
By contrast, John McCain, the eventual GOP nominee, had raised approximately $12.7 million in the first quarter of 2007 alone.
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Lloyd Green
January 4, 2015
Travel Noire fellows earned about a half million travel miles in 2014.
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Charlise Ferguson
January 4, 2015

Historical Examples of million

I told Coplen to offer her a million cash for everything rather'n have any fuss.
The Spenders
Harry Leon Wilson
Losing a million a minute, even in sleep, he thought, was disquieting.
The Spenders
Harry Leon Wilson
At least, I do not care about so much as he has,—more than a million dollars, only think!
Malbone
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Now say, 'Emma, you are one in a million, and a cook besides.'
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus
Jessie Graham Flower
It is computed that the expense would not exceed a million and a half sterling.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327
Various

British Dictionary definitions for million

million

noun plural -lions or -lion

the cardinal number that is the product of 1000 multiplied by 1000See 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 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

Related formsRelated prefix: mega-

Word Origin for million

C17: via Old French from early Italian millione, from mille thousand, from Latin

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

Word Origin and History for million

n.

late 14c., from Old French million (late 13c.), from Italian millione (now milione), literally "a great thousand," augmentative of mille "thousand," from Latin mille, which is of uncertain origin. Used mainly by mathematicians until 16c. India, with its love of large numbers, had names before 3c. for numbers well beyond a billion. The ancient Greeks had no name for a number greater than ten thousand, the Romans for none higher than a hundred thousand. "A million" in Latin would have been decies centena milia, literally "ten hundred thousand." Million to one as a type of "long odds" is attested from 1761. Related: Millions.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

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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