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] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) (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: […] [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.
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
- 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
- multimillion
- multi-million
- never in a million years
- not in a million
- not in a million years
- one hundred million
- one in a million
- one million
- supra-million
- thanks a million
- you're welcome a million
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]
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 x 106) → [a], [b] | 1,000,000,000 (109) → |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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/
Audio (file)
- Rhymes: -ɔ̃
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “million”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French million, probably borrowed from Italian milione.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millioner, definite plural millionene)
- a million
References
- “million” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millionar, definite plural millionane)
- a million
References
- “million” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Declension
| Declension of million | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | million | millionen | millioner | millionerna |
| Genitive | millions | millionens | millioners | millionernas |
Uzbek
| ← 1 | ← 1,000 | 1,000,000 (106) | 1,000,000,000 (109) → | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: million Ordinal: millioninchi | ||||
Derived terms
- millioninchi (“millionth”)
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