noun,pluralmil·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.
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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The salt deposits are young—some just a couple of million years old.
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Most of its fossils date to the Mesozoic, between 252 and 66 million years ago.
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Now, a fossil bed of brachiopods in Yunnan, China, offers strong evidence for parasites from almost 100 million years earlier.
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Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
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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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In 2008, Huckabee raised a little over $16 million, with less than $55,000 coming from political action committees.
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New Bedford's loss alone was twenty-three vessels, which, with their outfits, were valued at more than a million dollars.
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There comes a break in the Record of the Rocks that may represent several million years.
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The total number of flowing bores in the colony was given as 440, with a yield of water of nearly 266½ million gallons a day.
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Half a million of these went over in the first thirteen months, the others in the last six months.
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There, a millionmillion feathery daisies sway and dance in the breeze, lifting their snowy wheels to the blue June sky.
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British Dictionary definitions for million
million
/ (ˈmɪljən) /
nounplural-lionsor-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)informalan 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 millionAustralianinformaldone 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