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See also: Million
English
| ← 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/,
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: mil‧lion
- Rhymes: -ɪljən
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 , 2nd edition, part 1, London: 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.
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
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
Related terms
Descendants
- → Hawaiian: miliona
- → Maori: miriona
- → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
- → Welsh: miliwn
- → Yoruba: mílíọ̀nù
Translations
cardinal number
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See also
- (short scale) Previous: thousand. Next: billion
- (long scale) Previous: thousand. Next: milliard
- (Ordinal) millionth
- ISO prefix: mega-
- mega
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Numeral
million
Declension
| 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], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed via French million from Italian milione.
Pronunciation
Numeral
million
- A million, 106.
Noun
million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)
- 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
| ← 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
Numeral
million m (plural millions)
- million (106)
Derived terms
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 , 2012.
Interlingua
Noun
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
un million
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French million, probably borrowed from Italian milione.
Noun
million m (plural millions)
- million, 106.
Descendants
- French: million
- → Crimean Tatar: million
- → Catalan: milió
- → Dutch: miljoen, millioen (obsolete)
- → English: million
- → Irish: milliún
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Numeral
million
- A million, 106.
Noun
million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millioner, definite plural millionene)
- a million
References
- “million” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Numeral
million
- a million, 106.
Noun
million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millionar, definite plural millionane)
- a million
References
- “million” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
million c
Declension
Declension of million
Tatar
Numeral
million (Cyrillic spelling миллион)
Uzbek
| ← 1 | ← 1,000 | 1,000,000 (106) | 1,000,000,000 (109) → | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: million Ordinal: millioninchi | ||||
Numeral
million
Derived terms
- millioninchi (“millionth”)