million

[ mil-yuhn ]

/ ˈmɪl yən /

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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 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.

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 1350–1400; Middle English milioun, from Middle French, from Old Italian millione (Italian milione ), equivalent to mille “thousand” (from Latin mīlle ) + -one, augmentative suffix

OTHER WORDS FROM million

mul·ti·mil·lion, noun

Words nearby million

milliner, millinery, milling, milling machine, Millington, million, millionaire, millionairess, million electron volts, millionfold, millionth

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Most of its fossils date to the Mesozoic, between 252 and 66 million years ago.
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According to the USDA, student participation began to fall, with 1.4 million students opting out of the lunch program entirely.
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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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The moon was coming up, and its mystic shimmer was casting a million lights across the distant, restless water.
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Clodd tells us that one cubic inch of rotten stone contains 41 thousand million vegetable skeletons of diatoms.
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What are a few paltry, lumps of crystallised carbon compared to a galaxy of a million million suns?
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We were then nine million small arm still to the good having spent eleven million.
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In the first place, there is an immediate and urgent demand for at least Half a Million comfortable rain-proof dwellings.
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British Dictionary definitions for million

million

/ (ˈmɪljən) /

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

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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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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