million

Etymology

From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”), from mille (“thousand”) (from Latin mille) + the augmentative suffix -one. Compare -illion.

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  1. (long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand.
  2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.
    I told you a million times before.
    I can think of millions of reasons not to go.

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