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million

noun

mil·​lion ˈmi(l)-yən How to pronounce million (audio)
plural millions or million
1
: a number equal to 1,000 times 1,000 see Table of Numbers
2
: a very large number
millions of cars on the road
3
: the mass of common people
used with the
million adjective
millionfold adverb or adjective
millionth adjective or noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web They were built by the millions, so despite their appeal, a plentiful supply keeps prices reasonable. Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 6 June 2020 Conversely, with lockdowns of months, if not years, life largely stops, short-term and long-term consequences are entirely unknown, and billions, not just millions, of lives may be eventually at stake. John P.a. Ioannidis, STAT, 17 Mar. 2020 The plan was to create archives of all human knowledge that could last for millions, if not billions, of years, and to seed them across Earth and throughout the solar system. Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2019 On Thursday, the S&P 500 fell 0.9% after millions more Americans applied for unemployment benefits in April, darkening the mood after a relatively strong April. Jessica Menton, USA TODAY, 1 May 2020 That doesn’t count the hundreds of millions of vaccinations administered annually. Scott W. Atlas And H.r. Mcmaster, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2020 Such measures are a step forward, but fall short of covering the tens of millions of unemployed workers. Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020 McMaster's order comes after millions of other Americans are under orders from their local authorities to stay at home as part of an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus as the world fights the pandemic. NBC News, 2 Apr. 2020 The situations with millions of nights already booked in hotels is extremely difficult to handle, and the international sports calendar for at least 33 Olympic sports would have to be adapted. Tariq Panja, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English milioun, from Middle French milion, from Old Italian milione, augmentative of mille thousand, from Latin

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of million was in the 14th century

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