million

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

• enPR: mĭl′yən, IPA^(key): /ˈmɪljən/, [ˈmɪʎən]

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• Hyphenation: mil‧lion
• Rhymes: -ɪljən

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.

   • 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.

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).

• → Hawaiian: miliona
• → Maori: miriona
• → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
• → Welsh: miliwn
• → Yoruba: mílíọ̀nù

• (short scale) Previous: thousand. Next: billion
• (long scale) Previous: thousand. Next: milliard
• (Ordinal) millionth
• ISO prefix: mega-
• mega

From French million.

million

1. million

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

Borrowed via French million from Italian milione.

• IPA^(key): [miliˈoˀn], [milˈjoˀn]

million

1. A million, 10⁶.

million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)

1. a million

• “million” in Den Danske Ordbog

Inherited from Middle French million, from Italian milione.

• IPA^(key): /mi.ljɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

million m (plural millions)

1. million (10⁶)

• millionnaire

• → Crimean Tatar: million
• Louisiana Creole: milyon
• → Polish: milion, milon, milijon, milian (Middle Polish); miljon (pre-reform orthography (1936))

• “million”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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.

un million

1. a million, one million

From Old French million, probably borrowed from Italian milione.

million m (plural millions)

1. million, 10⁶.

• French: million
  • → Crimean Tatar: million
• → Catalan: milió
• → Dutch: miljoen, millioen (obsolete)
  • Afrikaans: miljoen
  • Negerhollands: millioon
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: melyun
  • → Caribbean Javanese: milyun
• → English: million
  • → Hawaiian: miliona
  • → Maori: miriona
  • → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
  • → Welsh: miliwn
• → Irish: milliún

From Italian milione.

million

1. A million, 10⁶.

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

1. a million

• “million” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Italian milione.

million

1. a million, 10⁶.

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

1. a million

• “million” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

million c

1. Obsolete spelling of miljon.

million (Cyrillic spelling миллион)

1. million

million

1. million

• millioninchi (“millionth”)