million
Meaning
- The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand.
- (colloquial) An unspecified very large number.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
mil‧lion
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmɪljən/
Etymology
From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”, from mille (“thousand”, from Latin mille) + -one). Compare -illion.
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