million

[ mil-yuh n ]

/ ˈmɪl yən /

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.

Words nearby million

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

Origin of million

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

OTHER WORDS FROM million

mul·ti·mil·lion, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for multimillion

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 multimillion

million

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