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million

million

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A number equal to one thousand times one thousand
  • numeral
  • /ˈmɪljən/
translation icon : millón
  • He won the lottery and will receive a jackpot of ten million dollars.
  • one million people
  • million dollars
  • a million years

They spend another million and a half to sell it.

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Examples

  • Since launching in 2002, the group raised an estimated $100 million from donors throughout the country.

    Academic text (2011)
  • So it saves you half a million a year, right?

  • And we may have up to half a million people coming this weekend.

  • What kind of secret is it if half a million people are in the know?

    Academic text (2011)
  • The company is losing half a million bucks a day.

  • For one million bucks... pick a card.

  • Give me a number, I'd say half a million in five years.

  • The People's Liberation Army is one million troops strong.

  • With state matching funds in excess of $19 million, the construction of this facility began.

    Academic text (2011)
  • They've demanded $10 million in damages from our organization.

Synonyms

1.0

A number equal to one million

is a single-word name for that same numeric value

Idioms

38 4.3

Saying this shows something is very unlikely to happen

6 7.1

Be full of energy and very happy

To be very healthy, happy, and full of energy

Seem very attractive and stylish

Enjoy very good health and happiness

Work very well and smoothly after being fixed or updated

Compounds

10 5.0

Something very important that everyone wants answered

An idea that is likely to make a lot of money

A measure of how fast a computer does one million math calculations each second

A unit for measuring how fast a computer processor runs, equal to one million instructions per second

A number equal to one followed by twelve zeros

A number equal to 1,000,000,000 written as one followed by nine zeros

How Big

billion
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million
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ten thousand
74 1.0
thousand
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Surface Forms

million cardinal word
1,000,000 cardinal digit
1 000 000 cardinal digit

Etymology

Million comes from the Italian millione, made from mille which means 'thousand' and the -one part which means 'big', and you can see mille in English words like millimeter. So a millione was a 'big thousand' or a 'thousand thousands', which is why million is 1,000,000.