Definitions for million

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million mil·lion

Spelling: [mil-yuh n]

IPA: /ˈmɪl yən/

Million is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in million (iillmno).

Definitions for million

noun

1. a cardinal number, a thousand times one thousand.
2. a symbol for this number, as 1,000,000 or M̅.
3. millions, a number between 1,000,000 and 999,999,999, as in referring to an amount of money:
4. the amount of a thousand thousand units of money, as pounds, dollars, or francs:
5. a very great number of times:
6. the million(s) the mass of the common people; the multitude:

adjective

1. amounting to one million in number.
2. amounting to a very great number:

Origin of million

1350-1400; Middle English milioun Middle French early Italian millione, equivalent to mille thousand (Latin) + -one augmentative suffix

Examples for million

Now say, 'Emma, you are one in a million, and a cook besides.'

Losing a million a minute, even in sleep, he thought, was disquieting.

Travel Noire fellows earned about a half million travel miles in 2014.

Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.

I told Coplen to offer her a million cash for everything rather'n have any fuss.

At least, I do not care about so much as he has,—more than a million dollars, only think!

By contrast, John McCain, the eventual GOP nominee, had raised approximately $12.7 million in the first quarter of 2007 alone.

It is computed that the expense would not exceed a million and a half sterling.

In 2008, Huckabee raised a little over $16 million, with less than $55,000 coming from political action committees.

According to the USDA, student participation began to fall, with 1.4 million students opting out of the lunch program entirely.