million
See also: Million
English
| ← 1,000 | [a], [b] ← 100,000 | 1,000,000 (106) | 10,000,000 (107) → [a], [b] | 1,000,000,000 (109) → [a], [b], [c] |
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| 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) + the augmentative suffix -one. Compare -illion.
Pronunciation
- enPR: mĭl′yən, IPA(key): /ˈmɪljən/, [ˈmɪljɪn]
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪljən
- Hyphenation: mil‧lion
Numeral
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
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
Descendants
Translations
cardinal number
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Crimean Tatar
Declension
Declension of million
| nominative | million |
|---|---|
| genitive | millionnıñ |
| dative | millionğa |
| accusative | millionnı |
| locative | millionda |
| ablative | milliondan |
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [miliˈoˀn], [milˈjoˀn]
French
| ← 1,000 | [a], [b] ← 100,000 | 1,000,000 (106) | 2,000,000 (2 x 106) → [a], [b] | 1,000,000,000 (109) → |
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| Cardinal (traditional spelling): un million Cardinal (post-1990 spelling): 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/
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Derived terms
Descendants
- → Crimean Tatar: million
Further reading
- “million”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua
Middle French
Etymology
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Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millioner, definite plural millionene)
- a million
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millionar, definite plural millionane)
- a million
Swedish
Declension
| Declension of million | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | million | millionen | millioner | millionerna |
| Genitive | millions | millionens | millioners | millionernas |
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