million
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- noun
- /ˈmɪljən/
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millón
- She dreamed of winning a million dollars in the lottery.
- millions of dollars
- hundreds of millions
- millions of people
Let's say a company has a million shares of stock.
- Let's say a company has a million shares of stock.
- Arc has three and a half million followers, I think on X.
- There are hundreds of millions of guns in our country.
- They both get millions and millions of views every single day.
- So your friendship with or connection with a million people is gone?
- Meanwhile, they're making millions and they're a close family.
- And then hundreds of millions of people die.
- You have what, half a million subscribers on YouTube?
- There's just a million ideas being pitched.
- And I think we hit a million that night, on Friday night.
- How can I give them millions of dollars of real value?
- Yes, something that stands there for a million years must be well engineered.
- The Johnson got four and a half million votes, right?
Examples
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And one place that sent more than a million men to the war was India.
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Let's say a company has a million shares of stock.
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And I think we hit a million that night, on Friday night.
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There are hundreds of millions of guns in our country.
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But then when I would lose a million, I was so depressed.
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You have what, half a million subscribers on YouTube?
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As such, successfully eradicating the disease could improve the lives of millions of people around the world.
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A global network of thousands of ecovillages allows millions of people to enjoy an alternative lifestyle.
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War and human rights violations are already scattering millions across the world in search of safety.
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With millions tuning in, it's the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the greatest race in the world.
Synonyms
A number equal to one million
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A measure of how fast a computer does one million math calculations each second
- Specialized
A unit for measuring how fast a computer processor runs, equal to one million instructions per second
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Etymology
Million comes from the Italian millione, from mille meaning 'thousand' plus a part meaning 'big'. That origin explains why we use million as a count word for 1,000,000, as in 'five million copies'.