million

See also: Million

English

English numbers ^(edit)

	10000000[a], [b]
	1,000,000
	100000[a], [b]
Cardinal: million     Ordinal: millionth     Multiplier: millionfold

Etymology

From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”), from mille (“thousand”) (from Latin mille) + the augmentative suffix -one. ·illion is a base extracted from million, as million is morphologically simple, the variant of ·illion when there is no prefix.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪljən
• Hyphenation: mil‧lion

Numeral

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

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

• like a million bucks
• megamillion
• millionaire
• millionary
• millionennium
• millionfold
• millionth
• multimillion
• never in a million years
• one in a million
• one million
• thanks a million

 

Related terms

• thousand
• billion
• trillion

Descendants

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

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: miljoen (af)
• Albanian: milion (sq)
• Arabic: مِلْيُون‎ m (milyōn), ١٠٠٠٠٠٠‎ (1000000)

  Hijazi Arabic: مِلْيون‎ m (milyōn)

• Armenian: միլիոն (hy) (milion)
• Asturian: millón (ast)
• Azerbaijani: milyon (az)
• Basque: milioi
• Belarusian: мільён m (milʹjón)
• Bengali: নুযুত (nujut), মিলিয়ন (miliẏôn)
• Breton: milion (br)
• Bulgarian: милио́н m (milión)
• Burmese: သန်း (my) (san:)
• Catalan: milió (ca) m
• Cebuano: yukot, milyon
• Chechen: миллион (million)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 百萬, 百万 (baak³ maan⁶)

  Mandarin: 百萬 (zh), 百万 (zh) (bǎi-wàn)

• Chuukese: minion
• Crimean Tatar: million
• Czech: milión (cs) m
• Danish: million (da) c
• Dutch: miljoen (nl) n
• Egyptian: (ḥḥ)
• Esperanto: miliono (eo)
• Estonian: miljon (et)
• Finnish: miljoona (fi)
• French: million (fr) m
• Georgian: მილიონი (milioni)
• German: Million (de) f
• Greek: εκατομμύριο (el) n (ekatommýrio)
• Guaraní: sua
• Gujarati: દશ લાખ (daś lākh)
• Hawaiian: miliona
• Hebrew: מִילְיוֹן‎ (he) (milyón)
• Hiligaynon: hambad, milyon, ramak
• Hindi: दस लाख (das lākh), १०००००० (1000000), नियुत (hi) m (niyut)
• Hungarian: millió (hu)
• Icelandic: milljón, miljón (is) f
• Indonesian: juta (id)
• Interlingua: un million
• Irish: milliún (ga) m
• Italian: milione (it) m
• Japanese: 百万 (ja) (ひゃくまん, hyaku-man)
• Javanese: yuta
• Kalmyk: сай (say)
• Kazakh: миллион (kk) (mïllïon)
• Khmer: មួយលាន (muəy liən)
• Korean: 백만 (ko) (baengman) (百萬 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: میلیۆن‎ (mîlyon)

  Northern Kurdish: mîlyon (ku)

• Kyrgyz: миллион (ky) (million)
• Lao: ລ້ານ (lo) (lān)
• Latin: milliō m

• Latvian: miljons m
• Lithuanian: milijonas (lt) m
• Lun Bawang: ribet
• Lü: ᦟᦱᧃᧉ (laan²)
• Macedonian: милио́н (mk) m (milión)
• Malay: juta (ms)
• Maltese: miljun
• Manchu: ᡨ᠋ᠠᠩᡤᡡ
  ᡨᡠ᠋ᠮᡝᠨ (t᠋anggū tu᠋men)
• Manx: millioon
• Maori: miriona
• Middle French: million m
• Mongolian: сая (mn) (saya)
• Navajo: tʼááłáhádí míiltsoh, miiltsoh
• Norman: millaon (Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: million (no) m

  Nynorsk: million (nn) m

• Occitan: milion (oc)
• Ojibwe: midaaswaak daso-midaawaak
• Oromo: kitila
• Persian: میلیون‎ (fa) (milyon)
• Polish: milion (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: milhão (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਦਸ ਲਾਖ (das lākh)
• Quechua: hunu
• Romanian: milion (ro) n
• Russian: миллио́н (ru) m (millión)
• Sanskrit: दशलक्षं (daśalakṣaṃ), नियुत (sa) (niyuta)
• Scottish Gaelic: millean m, muillean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: милѝо̄н m, милѝјӯн m

  Roman: milìōn (sh) m, milìjūn (sh) m

• Shan: လၢၼ်ႉ (shn) (lâ̰an)
• Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
• Slovak: milión (sk) m
• Slovene: milijon (sl)
• Spanish: un millón (es) m
• Swedish: miljon (sv) c, million (sv) c (obsolete)
• Tagalog: milyon, angaw
• Tajik: миллион (million)
• Tatar: миллион (tt) (million)
• Telugu: పది లక్షలు (padi lakṣalu)
• Thai: ล้าน (th) (láan)
• Turkish: bir milyon (tr)
• Turkmen: million
• Tuvan: сая (saya), миллион (million)
• Ukrainian: мільйо́н (uk) m (milʹjón)
• Urdu: دس لاکھ‎ (das lākh)
• Uyghur: مىليون‎ (milyon)
• Uzbek: million (uz)
• Vietnamese: triệu (vi)
• Volapük: balion (vo)
• Welsh: miliwn (cy)
• Yakut: муҥ (muŋ), мөлүйүөн (mölüyüön)
• Yiddish: מיליאָן‎ (milyon)
• Yup'ik: miilicaaq

See also

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

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Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From French million.

Numeral

million

1. million

Declension

Declension of million

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

References

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

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed via French million from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [miliˈoˀn], [milˈjoˀn]

Numeral

million

1. A million, 10⁶.

Noun

million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)

1. a million

References

• “million” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Etymology

From Middle French million, from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ljɔ̃/

• audio

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Numeral

French numbers ^(edit)

	1,000,000
Cardinal: million     Ordinal: millionième

million

1. million, 10⁶.

Coordinate terms

• Previous: mille, 10³
• Next: milliard, 10⁹

Derived terms

• millionnaire

Descendants

• → Crimean Tatar: million

Further reading

• “million” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Interlingua

Noun

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

un million

1. a million, one million

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Middle French

Etymology

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Noun

million m (plural millions)

1. million, 10⁶.

Descendants

• French: million
  • → Crimean Tatar: million
• → Catalan: milió
• → Dutch: miljoen
  • Afrikaans: miljoen
• → English: million
  • → Hawaiian: miliona
  • → Maori: miriona
  • → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
  • → Welsh: miliwn
• → Irish: milliún

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian milione

Numeral

million

1. A million, 10⁶.

Noun

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

1. a million

References

• “million” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian milione

Numeral

million

1. a million, 10⁶.

Noun

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

1. a million

References

• “million” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Noun

million c

1. Obsolete spelling of miljon

Declension

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

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Tatar

Numeral

million (Cyrillic spelling миллион)

1. million