million

American  

[mil-yuhn] / ˈmɪl yən /

noun

plural

millions,

plural

million

1. a cardinal number, a thousand times one thousand.

2. a symbol for this number, as 1,000,000 or M̅.

3. 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.

4. the amount of a thousand thousand units of money, as dollars, pounds, or euros.

   The three Dutch paintings fetched a million.

5. a very great number of times.

   Thanks a million.

6. the million(s), the mass of the common people; the multitude.

   poetry for the millions.

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adjective

1. amounting to one million in number.

2. amounting to a very great number.

   a million things to do.

million British  

/ ˈmɪljən /

noun

1. the cardinal number that is the product of 1000 multiplied by 1000 See also number

2. a numeral, 1 000 000, 10 ⁶ , M, etc, representing this number

3. informal (often plural) an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount

   I have millions of things to do

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determiner

1. 1. amounting to a million

      a million light years away

   2. ( as pronoun )

      I can see a million under the microscope

2. informal done for; sunk

million Idioms  

1. see feel like oneself (a million dollars); look like a million dollars; one in a million.

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Other Word Forms

• multimillion noun

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

More than a million different people have since made deliveries for the firm via the app, which ranks as one of the largest last-mile delivery services in the US.

From BBC

He noted that adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization — a measure of underlying profitability of a business — improved 21% to $55.6 million, the highest seen in three years.

From MarketWatch

As Pew notes in other research, there were 76 million births during the baby boom generation, and the oldest among that group are now hitting 80.

From MarketWatch

He noted that adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization — a measure of underlying profitability of a business — improved 21% to $55.6 million, the highest seen in three years.

From MarketWatch

The open-source movement created millions of applications and wrote most of the world’s code.

From The Wall Street Journal

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