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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun million has 2 senses
- million(n = noun.quantity) 1000000, meg, one thousand thousand - the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros; Array is a kind of large integer
- million(n = noun.quantity) billion, gazillion, jillion, trillion, zillion - a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole); "there were millions of flies" is a kind of large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
Adjective million has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
million, n. [F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a thousand. See Mile.].
- The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000,000. See the Note under Hundred. [1913 Webster]
- A very great number; an indefinitely large number. [1913 Webster]"Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know." [1913 Webster]
- The mass of common people; -- with the article the. [1913 Webster]"For the play, I remember, pleased not the million." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
million, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. same or (in sense 2) millions) (in sing. prec. by a or one)
1 a thousand thousand.
2 (in pl.) colloq. a very large number (millions of years).
3 (prec. by the) the bulk of the population.
4 a Brit. a million pounds. b US a million dollars.
--adj. that amount to a million.
--n. (pl. same or (in sense 2) millions) (in sing. prec. by a or one)
1 a thousand thousand.
2 (in pl.) colloq. a very large number (millions of years).
3 (prec. by the) the bulk of the population.
4 a Brit. a million pounds. b US a million dollars.
--adj. that amount to a million.
Idiom
gone a million Austral. sl. completely defeated.
Derivative
millionfold adj. & adv. millionth adj. & n.
Etymology
ME f. OF, prob. f. It. millione f. mille thousand + -one augment. suffix
THESAURUS
million
a billion, a crore, a lakh, a million, a myriad, a nonillion, a quadrillion, a thousand, a zillion, billion, considerable, crore, ever so many, full many, gobs, heap, heaped-up, jillion, loads, many, multifarious, multifold, multiple, multitudinal, multitudinous, myriad, no few, not a few, numerous, quite some, slew, ten million, thousand, very many, wads, zillionROGET THESAURUS
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Five
N five, five, cinque, quint, quincux, six, half-a- dozen, half dozen, seven, eight, nine, three times three, dicker, ten, decade, eleven, twelve, dozen, thirteen, long dozen, baker's dozen, quintuplet, twenty, score, twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen, twenty-five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred, forty, two score, fifty, half a hundred, sixty, three score, seventy, three score and ten, eighty, four score, ninety, fourscore and ten, sestiad, hundred, centenary, hecatomb, century, hundredweight, cwt, one hundred and forty-four, gross, thousand, chiliad, millennium, thousand years, grand, myriad, ten thousand, ban, man, ten thousand years, banzai, lac, one hundred thousand, plum, million, thousand million, milliard, billion, trillion, five, quinary, quintuple, fifth, senary, sextuple, sixth, seventh, septuple, octuple, eighth, ninefold, ninth, tenfold, decimal, denary, decuple, tenth, eleventh, duodenary, duodenal, twelfth, in one's 'teens, thirteenth, vicesimal, vigesimal, twentieth, twenty-fourth, vicenary, vicennial, centuple, centuplicate, centennial, centenary, centurial, secular, hundredth, thousandth.Mankind
N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.
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