What does million mean?

Definitions for million
ˈmɪl yənmil·lion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. million, 1000000, one thousand thousand, megnoun

    the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros

  2. million, billion, trillion, zillion, jillion, gazillionadjective

    a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)

    "there were millions of flies"

  3. millionadjective

    (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Millionnoun

    Etymology: million, Fr. milliogne, Italian.

    Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths,
    In thy hands clutch’d as many millions, in
    Thy lying tongue both numbers. William Shakespeare.

    That the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right ones, is a truth more evident than many of those propositions that go for principles; and yet there are millions who know not this at all. John Locke.

    There are millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know. John Locke.

    She found the polish’d glass, whose small convex
    Enlarges to ten millions of degrees
    The mite, invisible else. Philips.

    Midst thy own flock, great shepherd, be receiv’d;
    And glad all heav’n with millions thou hast sav’d. Matthew Prior.

Wikipedia

  1. Million

    One million (1,000,000), or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The word is derived from the early Italian millione (milione in modern Italian), from mille, "thousand", plus the augmentative suffix -one.It is commonly abbreviated in British English as m (not to be confused with the metric prefix "m", milli, for 10−3), M, MM ("thousand thousands", from Latin "Mille"; not to be confused with the Roman numeral MM = 2,000), mm (not to be confused with millimetre), or mn in financial contexts.In scientific notation, it is written as 1×106 or 106. Physical quantities can also be expressed using the SI prefix mega (M), when dealing with SI units; for example, 1 megawatt (1 MW) equals 1,000,000 watts. The meaning of the word "million" is common to the short scale and long scale numbering systems, unlike the larger numbers, which have different names in the two systems. The million is sometimes used in the English language as a metaphor for a very large number, as in "Not in a million years" and "You're one in a million", or a hyperbole, as in "I've walked a million miles" and "You've asked a million-dollar question". 1,000,000 is also the square of 1000 and also the cube of 100.

ChatGPT

  1. million

    A million is a cardinal number that represents the quantity or amount of one million units or objects. It is a large numerical value equivalent to 1,000,000 or 10^6.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Millionnoun

    the number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred

  2. Millionnoun

    a very great number; an indefinitely large number

  3. Millionnoun

    the mass of common people; -- with the article the

  4. Etymology: [F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a thousand. See Mile.]

Wikidata

  1. Million

    One million or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The word is derived from the early Italian millione, from mille, "thousand", plus the augmentative suffix -one. In scientific notation, it is written as 1×10^6 or just 106. Physical quantities can also be expressed using the SI prefix mega, when dealing with SI units. For example, 1 megawatt equals 1,000,000 watts. The meaning of the word "million" is common to the short scale and long scale numbering systems, unlike the larger numbers, which have different names in the two systems. The million is sometimes used in the English language as a metaphor for a very large number, as in "Never in a million years" and "You're one in a million", or a hyperbole, as in "I've walked a million miles" and "You've asked the million-dollar question".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Million

    mil′yun, n. a thousand thousands (1,000,000): a very great number.—n. Mill′ionaire, a man worth a million of money or more.—adj. Mill′ionary, pertaining to, or consisting of, millions.—adj. and n. Mill′ionth, the ten hundred thousandth.—The million, the great body of the people generally. [Fr.,—Low L. millio—L. mille, 1000.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MILLION

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Million is ranked #9978 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Million surname appeared 3,233 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Million.

    82.7% or 2,675 total occurrences were White.
    10.4% or 338 total occurrences were Black.
    2.5% or 82 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2% or 66 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.3% or 43 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.9% or 29 total occurrences were Asian.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'million' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #352

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'million' in Written Corpus Frequency: #549

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'million' in Nouns Frequency: #98

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of million in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of million in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of million in a Sentence

  1. John McCain:

    CVN 79 is now $520 million over the Navy’s estimate.

  2. Josh Waites:

    Shanga's accused of stealing over 650,000 in both sales and withholding tax, (With) penalties and interest, it’s up to over $1 million owed.

  3. Ashish Jha:

    We have 1.3 million doses of TPOXX -- the treatment for smallpox, it can also be used for monkeypox -- in our stockpile. And we are working day and night to make access to that treatment easier for providers around the country.

  4. Luke Crane:

    They love being a part of making something new. And they've pledged a total of $305 million to games projects since Kickstarter first launched, we knew it would be successful given the people involved, but we had no idea it would get this big.

  5. Alex Azar:

    Twenty million people should get vaccinated in just the next several weeks, and then we'll just keep rolling out vaccines through January, February, March as they come off the production lines.

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