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  1. noun The cardinal number equal to 106.
  2. noun A million monetary units, such as dollars: made a million in the stock market.
  3. noun An indefinitely large number. Often used in the plural: millions of bicycles on the road.
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  • In astronomical subjects a million is a sort of unit, and it occurred to me to show what a million really is. —  James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
  • The National Gallery in London contributed £12.5 million, with £10 million from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and £7.4 million in public donations. —  The Latest From www.inthenews.co.uk
  • Show me why the one in a million is the one that sticks out, that seems so unfair to the other nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine! —  planet.journals.ie
  • The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner not one man in a million is able to diagnose. —  Ideas from free minds
  • College regents approved a general operating budget of $18.74 million, which is about $3.5 million or 23 percent higher than the approved 2007-08 budget of $15.29 million. —  The Daily News - News
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  1. Middle English, from Old French milion, probably from Old Italian milione, augmentative of mille, thousand, from Latin mīlle; see gheslo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English millioun, milion = Dutch millioen, miljoen = G. Swedish Danish million, from Old French (and F.) million = Provencal milio = Spanish millon = Portuguese milhão = Italian milione, millione (later Middle Latin millio(n-)), a million, augmentative of mille, from Latin mille, a thousand: see milli-.
 

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