See also: Million

English edit

English numbers (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]
    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]
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  • Hyphenation: mil‧lion
  • Rhymes: -ɪljən

Numeral edit

million (plural millions)

  1. (long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106; a thousand thousand.
  2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.
    I told you a million times before.
    I can think of millions of reasons not to go.

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).

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Crimean Tatar edit

Etymology edit

From French million.

Numeral edit

million

  1. million

Declension edit

References edit

  • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Danish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed via French million from Italian milione.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [miliˈoˀn], [milˈjoˀn]

Numeral edit

million

  1. A million, 106.

Noun edit

million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)

  1. a million

Declension edit

References edit

French edit

French numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000 [a], [b] ←  100,000 1,000,000 (106) 2,000,000 (2 x 106)  → [a], [b] 1,000,000,000 (109)  → 
    Cardinal (traditional spelling): un million
    Cardinal (post-1990 spelling): un-million
    Ordinal: millionième
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1 000 000e, (now nonstandard) 1 000 000ème

Etymology edit

Inherited from Middle French million, from Italian milione.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

million m (plural millions)

  1. million (106)

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Interlingua edit

Noun edit

million (plural milliones)

  1. 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.

Numeral edit

un million

  1. a million, one million

Middle French edit

Etymology edit

From Old French million, probably borrowed from Italian milione.

Noun edit

million m (plural millions)

  1. million, 106.

Descendants edit

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

From Italian milione.

Numeral edit

million

  1. A million, 106.

Noun edit

million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millioner, definite plural millionene)

  1. a million

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology edit

From Italian milione.

Numeral edit

million

  1. a million, 106.

Noun edit

million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millionar, definite plural millionane)

  1. a million

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Swedish edit

Noun edit

million c

  1. Obsolete spelling of miljon

Declension edit

Declension of million 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative million millionen millioner millionerna
Genitive millions millionens millioners millionernas

Tatar edit

Numeral edit

million (Cyrillic spelling миллион)

  1. million

Uzbek edit

Uzbek numbers (edit)
 ←  1  ←  1,000 1,000,000 (106) 1,000,000,000 (109)  → 
    Cardinal: million
    Ordinal: millioninchi

Numeral edit

million

  1. million

Derived terms edit