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million

See also: Million

English

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English numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000 [a], [b], [c] ←  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

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From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”, from mille (“thousand”, from Latin mille) +‎ -one). Compare -illion.

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: mĭl′yən, IPA(key): /ˈmɪljən/, [ˈmɪʎən]
  • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: mil‧lion
  • Rhymes: -ɪljən

Numeral

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million (plural millions)

  1. (long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106; a thousand thousand.
    • 2021 February 10, Eoin McSweeney, “As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos”, in CNN‎[1]:
      Doctors in Nigeria have criticized a mass national identification registration policy, involving tens of millions of citizens, as Covid-19 cases and deaths rise in the country. […] So far, only 56 million NINs have been collected by mobile operators, according to a federal government press release.
  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.
    • 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.
    • 1981, Chaka Khan, “Fate”, in What Cha' Gonna Do for Me:
      Time stood still and we were lost on words to say / And though the people stared, they seemed a million miles away / Oh, we knew it was love we were feeling / We were destined to give it a whole new meaning

Usage notes

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  • 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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Translations

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Crimean Tatar

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Etymology

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From French million.

Numeral

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million

  1. million

Declension

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Declension of million
nominative million
genitive millionnıñ
dative millionğa
accusative millionnı
locative millionda
ablative milliondan

References

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  • Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed via French million from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [miliˈoˀn], [milˈjoˀn]

Numeral

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million

  1. A million, 106.

Noun

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million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)

  1. a million

Declension

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Declension of million
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative million millionen millioner millionerne
genitive millions millionens millioners millionernes

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French

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French numbers (edit)
 ←  1,000 [a], [b] ←  100,000 1,000,000 (106) 2,000,000 (2 × 106)  →  1,000,000,000 (109)  → 
    Cardinal: un million
    Ordinal: millionième
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1 000 000e, (now nonstandard) 1 000 000ème
French Wikipedia article on 1,000,000 (106)

Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French million, from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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million m (plural millions)

  1. million (106)

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Interlingua

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Noun

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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

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un million

  1. a million, one million

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French million, probably borrowed from Italian milione.

Noun

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million m (plural millions)

  1. million, 106.

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Italian milione.

Numeral

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million

  1. A million, 106.

Noun

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

  1. a million

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Italian milione.

Numeral

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million

  1. a million, 106.

Noun

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

  1. a million

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Swedish

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Noun

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million c

  1. Obsolete spelling of miljon.

Declension

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Declension of million
nominative genitive
singular indefinite million millions
definite millionen millionens
plural indefinite millioner millioners
definite millionerna millionernas

Tatar

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million (Cyrillic spelling миллион)

  1. million

Uzbek

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

Numeral

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million

  1. million

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