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million

[ mil-yuhn ]

noun

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



adjective

  1. amounting to one million in number.
  2. amounting to a very great number:

    a million things to do.

million

/ 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

“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


determiner

  1. preceded bya or by a numeral
    1. amounting to a million

      a million light years away

    2. ( as pronoun )

      I can see a million under the microscope

  2. gone a million informal.
    done for; sunk
“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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of million1

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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of million1

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

Once that happened, the combined approximately 3 million landing pages exploded in SERPs.

She was talking about operationalizing SEO and saying that anyone touching the website could be making multi-million-dollar SEO decisions without realizing it.

The salt deposits are young—some just a couple of million years old.

Most of its fossils date to the Mesozoic, between 252 and 66 million years ago.

Now, a fossil bed of brachiopods in Yunnan, China, offers strong evidence for parasites from almost 100 million years earlier.

Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.

It was a very faithful homage to a Six Million Dollar Man episode.

According to the USDA, student participation began to fall, with 1.4 million students opting out of the lunch program entirely.

In 2008, Huckabee raised a little over $16 million, with less than $55,000 coming from political action committees.

By contrast, John McCain, the eventual GOP nominee, had raised approximately $12.7 million in the first quarter of 2007 alone.

The moon was coming up, and its mystic shimmer was casting a million lights across the distant, restless water.

Clodd tells us that one cubic inch of rotten stone contains 41 thousand million vegetable skeletons of diatoms.

What are a few paltry, lumps of crystallised carbon compared to a galaxy of a million million suns?

We were then nine million small arm still to the good having spent eleven million.

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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