million
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
million/ˈmɪljən/
▶cardinal number (pl. millions or (with numeral or quantifying word) same)
- 1 (a/one million) the number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a thousand; 1,000,000 or 106.
- 2 (also millions) informal a very large number or amount.
– derivatives
millionfold adjective & adverb,
millionth ordinal number.
millionfold adjective & adverb,
millionth ordinal number.
– origin ME: from OFr., prob. from Ital. milione, from mille ‘thousand’ + the augmentative suffix -one.
'million' also found in these Oxford entries:
aeon
- Archaean
- astronomical unit
- billion
- Cambrian
- Carboniferous
- Cenozoic
- cool
- Cretaceous
- crore
- Devonian
- Eocene
- gazillion
- gigabit
- gigabyte
- gigaflop
- gigahertz
- gigawatt
- hypersonic
- jillion
- Jurassic
- kalpa
- K/T boundary
- lias
- light year
- m
- mark
- Mc
- mega-
- megabit
- megabyte
- megadeath
- megaflop
- megahertz
- megaton
- megavolt
- megawatt
- megohm
- Mesozoic
- milliard
- millionaire
- Miocene
- MIPS
- multimillion
- multimillionaire
- multi-platinum
- Neogene
- not
- Oldowan
