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UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈmɪliən/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ˈmɪljən/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(mil′yən)

Inflections of 'million' (n):

millions: npl (Used without a preceding number—e.g. "This development cost millions of dollars.")

million: npl (Used with a preceding number—e.g. "The company's value is estimated at $10 million.")

mil•lion /ˈmɪlyən/USA pronunciation n., pl. -lions, (as after a numeral) -lion, adj.
n. [countable]

a number, 1000 times 1000.
a symbol for this number, as 1,000,000 or &Mmacr;.
Mathematics millions, [plural] a number between 1,000,000 and 999,999,999.
the amount of a thousand thousand units of money:The painting fetched a million.
a very great number or amount:Thanks a million.

adj. [after a number and before a noun]

amounting to one million in number:Two million dollars is a lot to pay.

mil•lionth, adj., n. [countable]

mil•lion (mil′yən),USA pronunciation n., pl. -lions, (as after a numeral) -lion, adj.
n.

a cardinal number, a thousand times one thousand.
a symbol for this number, as 1,000,000 or M̄.
Mathematicsmillions, 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 or the millions, the mass of the common people;
the multitude:poetry for the millions.

adj.

amounting to one million in number.
amounting to a very great number:a million things to do.

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

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

million /ˈmɪljən/ n ( pl -lions, -lion)

the cardinal number that is the product of 1000 multiplied by 1000
a numeral, 1 000 000, 10⁶, 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 million: a million light years away
- (as pronoun): I can see a million under the microscope

Etymology: 17th Century: via Old French from early Italian millione, from mille thousand, from Latin

'million' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

aeon - Arabic - australopithecine - balloon - billion - Black Death - Cambrian - Carboniferous - continental drift - Cretaceous - decillion - deuterium - Devonian - dollar - earth - English - fluoridation - French - Gadsden Purchase - gazillion - German - gigabit - gigaflop - Gondwanaland - Greene - insect - Italian - Japanese - Jupiter - Jurassic - Laos - Laurasia - Leakey - M - M. - Mars - megabit - megabuck - megacity - megadeath - megaflop - megahertz - megalitre - megapixel - megaton - megohm - Mercury - MeV - milliard - ambient air standard

In Lists: PET Vocabulary List - M, Vocabulaire , more...

Collocations: [half, a quarter of] a million, could [reach, total, number] millions, the [drought, war, disaster] affected millions, more...

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