Million

million
    adj 1: (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it)
           denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or
           units
    n 1: the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
         [syn: {million}, {1000000}, {one thousand thousand}, {meg}]
    2: a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole); "there
       were millions of flies" [syn: {million}, {billion},
       {trillion}, {zillion}, {jillion}, {gazillion}]
    

Million \Mil"lion\ (m[i^]l"y[u^]n), 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}.
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   2. A very great number; an indefinitely large number.
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            Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to
            know.                                 --Locke.
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   3. The mass of common people; -- with the article the.
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            For the play, I remember, pleased not the million.
                                                  --Shak.
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36 Moby Thesaurus words for "million":
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      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, zillion