million
English edit
← 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 |
Etymology edit
From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”), from mille (“thousand”) (from Latin mille) + the augmentative suffix -one. Compare -illion.
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: mĭl′yən, IPA(key): /ˈmɪljən/, [ˈmɪʎən]
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: mil‧lion
- Rhymes: -ɪljən
Numeral edit
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 […], 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.
Usage notes edit
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 terms edit
- like a million bucks
- like a million dollars
- like a million pounds
- megamillion
- millionaire
- million and one
- millionary
- million city
- million-dollar
- million dollar question
- million-dollar question
- millionennium
- millionfold
- million million
- millionth
- multimillion
- multi-million
- never in a million years
- not in a million
- not in a million years
- one hundred million
- one in a million
- one million
- supra-million
- thanks a million
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Hawaiian: miliona
- → Maori: miriona
- → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
- → Welsh: miliwn
- → Yoruba: mílíọ̀nù
Translations edit
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See also edit
Crimean Tatar edit
Etymology edit
Numeral edit
million
Declension edit
nominative | million |
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genitive | millionnıñ |
dative | millionğa |
accusative | millionnı |
locative | millionda |
ablative | milliondan |
References edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed via French million from Italian milione.
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
million
- A million, 106.
Noun edit
million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)
- a million
Declension edit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | million | millionen | millioner | millionerne |
genitive | millions | millionens | millioners | millionernes |
References edit
- “million” in Den Danske Ordbog
French edit
← 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) |
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French million, from Italian milione.
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
million m (plural millions)
- million (106)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “million”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
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:
Numeral edit
un million
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French million, probably borrowed from Italian milione.
Noun edit
million m (plural millions)
- million, 106.
Descendants edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Numeral edit
million
- A million, 106.
Noun edit
million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millioner, definite plural millionene)
- a million
References edit
- “million” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Numeral edit
million
- a million, 106.
Noun edit
million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millionar, definite plural millionane)
- a million
References edit
- “million” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish edit
Noun edit
million c
Declension edit
Declension of million | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | million | millionen | millioner | millionerna |
Genitive | millions | millionens | millioners | millionernas |
Tatar edit
Numeral edit
million (Cyrillic spelling миллион)
Uzbek edit
← 1 | ← 1,000 | 1,000,000 (106) | 1,000,000,000 (109) → | |
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Cardinal: million Ordinal: millioninchi |
Numeral edit
million
Derived terms edit
- millioninchi (“millionth”)