million

See also: Million

English

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

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: mil‧lion
• Rhymes: -ɪljən

Numeral

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

• 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).

Synonyms

abbreviations

• mil, mil.
• mln, mln.
• M, m, M., m.
• MM, MM.
• mn, mn.

Coordinate terms

• thousand
• milliard
• thousand million
• billion
• trillion
• quadrillion
• quintillion
• sextillion

Derived terms

• hundred million
• like a million bucks
• like a million dollars
• like a million pounds
• megamillion
• millionaire
• million and one
• millionary
• million city
• million-dollar
• million dollar question
• million-dollar question
• millionennium
• millionfold
• million million
• millionth
• multi-million
• multimillion
• never in a million years
• not in a million
• not in a million years
• one hundred million
• one in a million
• one million
• one thousand million
• supra-million
• ten million
• thanks a million
• thousand million
• you're welcome a million

Descendants

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

Translations

cardinal number

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

  Hijazi Arabic: مِلْيون m (milyōn)

• Aramaic: ܡܠܝܘܢ m or f (milyōn), ܐܠܦܐ ܐܠܦܐ (alpā alpē)
• Armenian: միլիոն (hy) (milion), բյուրհազար (hy) (byurhazar)
• Asturian: millón (ast)
• Azerbaijani:

  Abjad: میلیون (million, milyon), یوز تومان (youz touman)

  Roman: milyon (az), yüz tümən (obsolete)

• Basque: milioi
• Belarusian: мільён (be) m (milʹjón)
• Bengali: নুযুত (nujut), মিলিয়ন (miliẏon)
• Breton: milion (br)
• Bulgarian: милио́н m (milión)
• Burmese: သန်း (my) (san:)
• Buryat: сая (saja)
• Catalan: milió (ca) m
• Cebuano: yukot, milyon
• Chechen: миллион (million)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 百萬 / 百万 (baak³ maan⁶)

  Mandarin: 百萬 / 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: sejuta (id) (one million), juta (id) (million in general)
• Interlingua: un million
• Irish: milliún (ga) m
• Italian: milione (it) m
• Japanese: 百万 (ja) (ひゃくまん, hyaku-man)
• Javanese: yuta (jv)
• Kalmyk: сай (say)
• Kapampangan: sangyuta, milyun
• Karaim: miliyon, iz timen, yüz tümen
• Kazakh: миллион (kk) (million)
• Khmer: មួយលាន (muəy liən)
• Korean: 백만(百萬) (ko) (baengman)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: میلیۆن (mîlyon)

  Northern Kurdish: mîlyon (ku)

• Kyrgyz: миллион (ky) (million)
• Lao: ລ້ານ (lo) (lān)
• Latin: milliō m, decies centena milia
• Latvian: miljons m
• Lithuanian: milijonas (lt) m
• Louisiana Creole French: milyon
• Lü: ᦟᦱᧃᧉ (laan²)
• Lun Bawang: ribet
• Macedonian: милио́н (mk) m (milión)
• Malay: juta (ms)
• Malayalam: ദശലക്ഷം (daśalakṣaṁ), പത്തുലക്ഷം (pattulakṣaṁ)
• Maltese: miljun
• Manchu: ᡨ᠋ᠠᠩᡤᡡ
  ᡨᡠ᠋ᠮᡝᠨ (tanggū tumen)
• Manx: millioon
• Maori: miriona
• Middle French: million m
• Mongolian: сая (mn) (saja)
• Navajo: tʼááłáhádí míiltsoh, miiltsoh
• Norman: millaon (Guernsey)
• Northern Sami: miljovdna
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: million (no) m

  Nynorsk: million (nn) m

• Occitan: milion (oc)
• Ojibwe: midaaswaak daso-midaawaak, midaaswaak daso midaawaak
• Old Church Slavonic: леодръ (leodrŭ)
• Oromo: kitila
• Ottoman Turkish: پكمن (pekmen)
• Persian: میلیون (fa) (milyon), هزارهزار (hezārhezār) (archaic)
• 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: 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: một triệu, triệu (vi)
• Volapük: balion (vo)
• Welsh: miliwn (cy)
• Yakut: муҥ (muñ), мөлүйүөн (mölüyüön)
• Yiddish: מיליאָן (milyon)
• Yoruba: àádọ́ta ọ̀kẹ́, ẹgbẹ̀ẹgbẹ̀rún, mílíọ̀nù
• Yup'ik: miilicaaq

See also

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

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]‎^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

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

Declension

Declension of million

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

References

• “million” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

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

Inherited from Middle French million, from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ljɔ̃/

  • Audio:

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Numeral

million m (plural millions)

1. million (10⁶)

Derived terms

• millionnaire

Descendants

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

Further reading

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

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

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French million, probably borrowed from Italian milione.

Noun

million m (plural millions)

1. million, 10⁶.

Descendants

• 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

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.

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.

Swedish

Noun

million c

1. Obsolete spelling of miljon.

Declension

Declension of million

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

Tatar

Numeral

million (Cyrillic spelling миллион)

1. million

Uzbek

Uzbek numbers ^(edit)

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

Numeral

million

1. million

Derived terms

• millioninchi (“millionth”)