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Definition of the million in English English dictionary
million: The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106
million: {n} the number of 1,, a large sum
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million: The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10[6]. Ordinal: millionth
million: A million or one million is the number 1,000,000. Up to five million people a year visit the county Profits for 1999 topped £100 million
million: (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units
million: {s} being 1 000 000 in number
million: A very great number; an indefinitely large number
million: {i} number 1 000 000; great number of things (Informal)
million: the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units
million: The mass of common people; with the article the
million: See the Note under Hundred
million: the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
million: The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, written 1,000,000
million: If you talk about millions of people or things, you mean that there is a very large number of them but you do not know or do not want to say exactly how many. The programme was viewed on television in millions of homes
million: The plural form is million after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as `several' or `a few'