million
[ mil-yuh n ]
/ ˈmɪl yən /
noun, plural mil·lions, (as after a numeral) mil·lion.
adjective
amounting to one million in number.
amounting to a very great number: a million things to do.
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, nounWords nearby million
Example sentences from the Web for million
British Dictionary definitions for million
million
/ (ˈmɪljən) /
noun plural -lions or -lion
the cardinal number that is the product of 1000 multiplied by 1000
See 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 amount
I 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
Idioms and Phrases with million
million
see feel like oneself (a million dollars); look like a million dollars; one in a million.