mil·lion (m l y n)

n. pl. million or mil·lions

1. The cardinal number equal to 106.
2. A million monetary units, such as dollars: made a million in the stock market.
3. An indefinitely large number. Often used in the plural: millions of bicycles on the road.
4. The common people; the masses. Often used in the plural: entertainment for the millions.

[Middle English, from Old French milion, probably from Old Italian milione, augmentative

of mille, thousand, from Latin m lle; see gheslo- in Indo-European roots.]

mil lion adj.

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million [ˈmɪljən]

n pl -lions, -lion

1. (Mathematics) the cardinal number that is the product of 1000 multiplied by 1000 See also number [1]

2. (Mathematics) a numeral, 1 000 000, 106, M, etc., representing this number

3. (often plural) Informal an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount I have millions of
things to do

determiner

1. (preceded by a or by a numeral)

a. amounting to a million a million light years away

b. (as pronoun) I can see a million under the microscope

gone a million Austral informal done for; sunk Related prefix mega-

[via Old French from early Italian millione, from mille thousand, from Latin]
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Noun 1. million - the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
1000000, meg, one thousand thousand
large integer - an integer equal to or greater than ten

2. million - a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole); "there were millions of flies"
gazillion, jillion, trillion, zillion, billion
large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or
magnitude
Adj. 1. million - (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity
consisting of 1,000,000 items or units
cardinal - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"

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million determiner

Related words
combining form mega-

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A million is a thousand thousands (1,000,000).

Billion

Usually means a thousand millions. 1,000 x 1,000,000 =

1,000,000,000

A 1 followed by 9 zeros, 1 × 109

 In some countries such as the UK it can mean a million million
1,000,000 x 1,000,000 = 1,000,000,000,000 (A 1 followed by 12
zeros, 1 × 1012)

Billion may refer to:

In numbers:

 Long and short scales

 1,000,000,000,000 (number), one million million, 1012, in the long scale

 1,000,000,000 (number), one thousand million, 109, in the short scale