million
EnglishEdit
← 1,000 | [a], [b] ← 100,000 | 1,000,000 (106) | 10,000,000 (107) → [a], [b] | 1,000,000,000 (109) → [a], [b], [c] |
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Cardinal: million Ordinal: millionth Multiplier: millionfold Metric collective prefix: mega- Metric fractional prefix: micro- Number of years: millionennium, megannum, megayear |
EtymologyEdit
From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”), from mille (“thousand”) (from Latin mille) + the augmentative suffix -one. Compare -illion.
PronunciationEdit
- enPR: mĭl′yən, IPA(key): /ˈmɪljən/, [ˈmɪljɪn]
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪljən
- Hyphenation: mil‧lion
NumeralEdit
million (plural millions)
- (long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106; a thousand thousand.
- (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 […], part 1, 2nd edition, 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.
Usage notesEdit
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).
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Hawaiian: miliona
- → Maori: miriona
- → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
- → Welsh: miliwn
- → Yoruba: mílíọ̀nù
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
Crimean TatarEdit
EtymologyEdit
NumeralEdit
million
DeclensionEdit
nominative | million |
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genitive | millionnıñ |
dative | millionğa |
accusative | millionnı |
locative | millionda |
ablative | milliondan |
ReferencesEdit
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed via French million from Italian milione.
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
million
- A million, 106.
NounEdit
million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)
- a million
ReferencesEdit
- “million” in Den Danske Ordbog
FrenchEdit
← 1,000 | [a], [b] ← 100,000 | 1,000,000 (106) | 2,000,000 (2 x 106) → [a], [b] | 1,000,000,000 (109) → |
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Cardinal (traditional spelling): un million Cardinal (post-1990 spelling): un-million Ordinal: millionième Ordinal abbreviation: 1 000 000e, (now nonstandard) 1 000 000ème | ||||
French Wikipedia article on 1,000,000 (106) |
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Middle French million, from Italian milione.
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
million m (plural millions)
- million (106)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Crimean Tatar: million
Further readingEdit
- “million”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
InterlinguaEdit
NounEdit
million (plural milliones)
- 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.
- 2012, Panorama in Interlingua, September-October, p. 24:
NumeralEdit
un million
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
NounEdit
million m (plural millions)
- million, 106.
DescendantsEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NumeralEdit
million
- A million, 106.
NounEdit
million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millioner, definite plural millionene)
- a million
ReferencesEdit
- “million” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NumeralEdit
million
- a million, 106.
NounEdit
million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millionar, definite plural millionane)
- a million
ReferencesEdit
- “million” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
million c
- Obsolete spelling of miljon
DeclensionEdit
Declension of million | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | million | millionen | millioner | millionerna |
Genitive | millions | millionens | millioners | millionernas |
TatarEdit
NumeralEdit
million (Cyrillic spelling миллион)
UzbekEdit
NumeralEdit
million
Derived termsEdit
- millioninchi (“millionth”)