Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The cardinal number equal to 106.
- n. A million monetary units, such as dollars: made a million in the stock market.
- n. An indefinitely large number. Often used in the plural: millions of bicycles on the road.
- n. The common people; the masses. Often used in the plural: entertainment for the millions.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand.
- n. The amount of a thousand thousand units of money, as pounds, dollars, or francs: as, he is worth a million; millions have been wasted in preparation for war.
- n. A very great number or quantity, indefinitely.
- [Strictly a collective noun: see hundred.] A thousand times one thousand; ten hundred thousand: as, a capital of a (or one) million dollars; a country of ten million inhabitants.
- n. An obsolete or dialectal form of melon.
Wiktionary
- n. The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000,000. See the Note under hundred.
- n. A very great number; an indefinitely large number.
- n. The mass of common people; -- with the article
the .
WordNet 3.0
- n. the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
- adj. (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units
- n. a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)
Etymologies
- From Old French, from Italian milione ("million"), from mille ("thousand") (from Latin mille) + the augmentative suffix -one. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French milion, probably from Old Italian milione, augmentative of mille, thousand, from Latin mīlle; see gheslo- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The film now sits with $156 million domestic and $325 million worldwide on a $170 million+ $100 million or more in marketing.”
“Tracking had the film opening as low as $30 million, which for the allegedly $200 million+ production would have been a disaster.”
“All swaps and security-based swaps must be reported, regardless of how they are executed, with trades over $250 million posted as " $250 million+ " — whether they are $260 million or $3 billion.”
The Wall Street Journal: Derivative-Disclosure Rules May Lift Transaction Costs
“And both Star Trek and X-Men Origins: Wolverine will get sequels after each grossing around $380 million worldwide on $150 million+ budgets.”
“For what it's worth, the Angels & Demons opening bested National Treasure: Book of Secrets by $2 million, with both fending off the second weekend of a $75 million+ opener.”
“It's still dragging just a bit behind Finding Nemo (which had $228 million at this point), and it will lose many of its 3D screens when Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs opens on July 1st, but this one is so far playing like a $300 million+ earner.”
“But Obama's $4 million income last year, his wife's annual $350,000 from the University of Chicago, and their $1 million+ mansion don't bother you?”
“Cutting 5 million barrels of oil, roughly 250 million+ gallons, which translates quite roughly into over five billion pounds or more than 2.5 million tons of CO2.”
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“The Proposal dropped a large, but not fatal, 45% and ended weekend two with a solid $69 million, guaranteeing that this will be Bullock's fifth $100 million grossing picture (and Ryan Reynold's second and second-consecutive $100 million+ grosser after X-Men Origins: Wolverine).”
“Come what may, whether it craps out and barely crosses $100 million or whether it goes the $150 million+ distance, this is a major and important win for everyone involved.”
Scott Mendelson: Whoops...The Hangover Is Actually Number 01 This Weekend
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘million’.
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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US - What is Bill talking about - Sep...
The 100 most frequent words of Bill Clinton’s Speech to the Democratic National Convention
america, american, arithmetic, attacked, barack, believe, better, bill, budget, care, class, college and 86 more...
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Lions and tigers and—Well, just lions...
million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion, undecillion, duodecillion and 66 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Tunie: Word Disassociation
(I'm fairly sure that I'm subverting the whole concept of the Tunie by listing this song. Subversion! Yes! HA HA HA HA! Mine is an evil laugh!!!)
Word Disassociation
antidisestablishm..., quickly, ruby, bionic, about, crouch, a cappella, imposter, flames, distraction, murderous, over and 181 more...
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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European World Systems
europe, colonization, defense, barter, feudalism, gunpowder, technology, guns, domination, lords, monarchs, transition and 250 more...
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What Is the Sound of One Hand Typing?
Words you can type with one hand--if you learned how to type formally. Hunt-and-peck method doesn't count. ;-) I'm keeping it to five or more letters to avoid an excessively lengthy list.
<...racecar, start, create, desert, dessert, secret, secrete, sweet, tresses, poppy, puppy, homonym and 141 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Words suggested in response to Funk's...
In response to Wilfred J. Funk's "ten most beautiful words in the English language" list of 1932.
beer, rum, rye, sauterne, sherry, brandy, bourbon, Scotch, champagne, cocktail, lyric, serenity and 137 more...
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embrace, perfect, imagine, dance, water, color, echo, hollow, sorrow, beauty, impossible, violet and 438 more...
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OM3 Lesson 32
donuts, doughnuts, used, dozen, dozens, variety, carpool, gasoline, gas, gallon, million, a day and 38 more...
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Tunie: Night Train to Lorca
By the Pogues, on the LP "Peace and Love." I don't know if it's the stark simplicity of the individual words or the evocative images conjured by their juxtaposition, but I simply love these lyrics....
crow, rooster, dawn, cranks, whirling, pistons, gleaming, glow, orange, eye, flames, danced and 48 more...
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Number words
A list of some words for numbers (mostly cardinal numbers, but a few other important ones that have short descriptions).
aleph-one, aleph-null, infinity, googolplex, googol, trillion, billion, myllion, million, myriad, great gross, thousand and 43 more...
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Halloweenie: Down in the Ground Where...
By the Pogues, on their CD "Red Roses for Me."
Hello boys I've been away
On a bit of a holiday
To the land where the rivers freely flow
And the cattle roam on the wil...devil, ghost, bar, skunk, drunk, corpse, putrefying, slammed, moor, shore, dunes, stare and 28 more...
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