million
English[edit]
10000000[a], [b] | ||
1,000,000 | ||
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100000[a], [b] | ||
Cardinal: million Ordinal: millionth Multiplier: millionfold |
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/, [ˈmɪljɪn]
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪljən
- Hyphenation: mil‧lion
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 […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; 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).
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Translations[edit]
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See also[edit]
- (short scale) Previous: thousand. Next: billion
- (long scale) Previous: thousand. Next: milliard
- (Ordinal) millionth
- ISO prefix: mega-
- mega
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]
- 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]
Numeral[edit]
million
- A million, 106.
Noun[edit]
million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)
- a million
References[edit]
- “million” in Den Danske Ordbog
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French million, from Italian milione.
Pronunciation[edit]
Numeral[edit]
1,000,000 | ||
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Cardinal: million Ordinal: millionième |
million
- million, 106
Coordinate terms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Crimean Tatar: million
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]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
million m (plural millions)
- million, 106.
Descendants[edit]
- French: million
- → Crimean Tatar: million
- → Catalan: milió
- → Dutch: miljoen, millioen
- → English: million
- → Irish: milliún
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
- Obsolete spelling of miljon
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)
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