Hypertext Webster Gateway: "million"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Million \Mil"lion\, n. [F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a
thousand. See {Mile}.]
1. The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand
thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under
{Hundred}.
2. A very great number; an indefinitely large number.
Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to
know. --Locke.
3. The mass of common people; -- with the article the.
For the play, I remember, pleased not the million.
--Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
million
adj : (in Roman numerals; M written with a macron over it)
denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or
units [syn: {a million}]
n : the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
[syn: {1000000}, {one thousand thousand}, {meg}]
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