million

From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”, from mille (“thousand”, from Latin mille) +‎ -one). Compare -illion.

• enPR: mĭl′yən, IPA^(key): /ˈmɪljən/, [ˈmɪl(i)jən]

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• Hyphenation: mil‧lion
• Rhymes: -ɪljən

million (plural millions)

1. (long scale and short scale) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand.
   • 2021 February 10, Eoin McSweeney, “As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Doctors in Nigeria have criticized a mass national identification registration policy, involving tens of millions of citizens, as Covid-19 cases and deaths rise in the country. […] So far, only 56 million NINs have been collected by mobile operators, according to a federal government press release.

2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.

   I told you a million times before.

   I can think of millions of reasons not to go.

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

     Let him bring millions infinite of men,
     Unpeopling weſterne Affrica and Greece:
     Yet we aſſure vs of the victorie.

   • 1981, Chaka Khan, “Fate”, in What Cha' Gonna Do for Me:

     Time stood still and we were lost on words to say / And though the people stared, they seemed a million miles away / Oh, we knew it was love we were feeling / We were destined to give it a whole new meaning

   • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 38:

     Up and round and through caves and out over precipices at a million miles an hour. The girls are behind me and I'm holding Matt, what a buzz.

• Until the early 20th century, million behaved much like an ordinary quantificational noun (such as pair or handful). That is, it inflected in the plural when modified by a numeral greater than 1, and was separated from the noun it quantified with of, as in: five millions of pounds (rather than the modern equivalent, five million pounds).

• → Hawaiian: miliona
• → Maori: miriona
• → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
• → Welsh: miliwn
• → Yoruba: mílíọ̀nù

• (short scale) Previous: thousand. Next: billion
• (long scale) Previous: thousand. Next: milliard
• (Ordinal) millionth
• ISO prefix: mega-
• mega

From French million.

million

1. million

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Borrowed via French million from Italian milione.

• IPA^(key): [miliˈoˀn], [milˈjoˀn]

million

1. A million, 10⁶.

million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)

1. a million

• “million” in Den Danske Ordbog

Inherited from Middle French million, from Italian milione.

• IPA^(key): /mi.ljɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

million m (plural millions)

1. million (10⁶)

• millionnaire

• → Crimean Tatar: million
• Louisiana Creole: milyon
• → Polish: milion, milon, milijon, milian (Middle Polish), miljon (pre-reform orthography (1936))

• “million”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

million (plural milliones)

1. million
   • 2012, Panorama in Interlingua, September-October, p. 24:

     Le anno passate 46 milliones statouniteses esseva povre.

     Last year 46 million U.S. Americans were poor.

un million

1. a million, one million

From Old French million, probably borrowed from Italian milione.

million m (plural millions)

1. million, 10⁶.

• French: million
  • → Crimean Tatar: million
• → Catalan: milió
• → Dutch: miljoen, millioen (obsolete)
  • Afrikaans: miljoen
  • Negerhollands: millioon
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: melyun
  • → Caribbean Javanese: milyun
• → English: million
  • → Hawaiian: miliona
  • → Maori: miriona
  • → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
  • → Welsh: miliwn
• → Irish: milliún

From Italian milione.

million

1. A million, 10⁶.

million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millioner, definite plural millionene)

1. a million

• “million” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Italian milione.

million

1. a million, 10⁶.

million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millionar, definite plural millionane)

1. a million

• “million” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

million c

1. obsolete spelling of miljon

million (Cyrillic spelling миллион)

1. million

million

1. million

• millioninchi (“millionth”)