millionnumber
uk/ˈmɪl.jən/us/ˈmɪl.jən/plural million or millionsA2 [ C ] the number 1,000,000:
The city has a population of almost a/one million.
She got eight million dollars for appearing in that film.
His business is worth millions of euros.
a million/millions of sth informal
B2 a large number:
I must have told you a million times to close the windows when you leave the house.
the millions
numbers between 1,000,000 and 1,000,000,000:
In wealthy areas, homes cost from €750,000 into the millions.
More examples
- The paintings fetched over a million dollars.
- The jobless total reached four million this week.
- Four million hours were lost last year through stress-related illnesses.
- They won the war, although it cost them millions of lives.
- Wheat is a staple crop for millions of people across the world.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Numbers: cardinal, including nought & zero
- eighty
- eleven
- fifty
- five
- fourteen
- giga-
- googol
- hundred
- milliard
- O, o
- oh
- seventy
- six
- ten
- thirty
- thousand
- trillion
- twelve
- uni
- unit
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Large in number or quantity
Numbers generally
Idiom(s)
be one in a million
one in a million
look/feel like a million dollars
thanks a million