million
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1.0
- numeral
- /ˈmɪljən/
:
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.
- They spend another million and a half to sell it.
- And dude, I had to lose a few million on just bad deals.
- It's if I get a million views, I win.
- But actually that corona is a whopping million degrees.
- So did half a million of the rest of us.
- I lost a couple million on flips when rates jumped.
- SOCKS for a million bonus ships when you sign up.
- And we may have up to half a million people coming this weekend.
- If you can guess it, you get a million points in my book.
- I read that you've reached over almost half a million girls with right.
- Alphago trained on a million online moves.
- So stay tuned for the thousand million long hour video.
- You want a million, you know, bring in Kleiner and million in Mayfield.
Examples
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Since launching in 2002, the group raised an estimated $100 million from donors throughout the country.
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So it saves you half a million a year, right?
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And we may have up to half a million people coming this weekend.
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What kind of secret is it if half a million people are in the know?
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The company is losing half a million bucks a day.
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For one million bucks... pick a card.
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Give me a number, I'd say half a million in five years.
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The People's Liberation Army is one million troops strong.
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With state matching funds in excess of $19 million, the construction of this facility began.
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They've demanded $10 million in damages from our organization.
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, 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.