- (abbreviation m)1 000 000
- a population of half a million
- tens of millions of dollars
- It must be worth a million (= pounds, dollars, etc.).
- millions of years old
Extra ExamplesTopics Maths and measurementa1- These fossils were millions of years in the making.
- Millions of people now visit the Lake District each year.
- A few million doesn't buy you what it used to.
- The foundation has donated millions of dollars to charitable causes.
- a million, millions (of…)(informal) a very large amount
- I still have a million things to do.
- There were millions of people there.
- He made his millions (= all his money) on currency deals.
Extra Examples- Was this the way to feed the world 's starving millions?
- The event must have cost millions.
- Big hotels are spending millions to hire celebrity chefs.
There are more examples of how to use numbers at the entry for hundred.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, probably from Italian milione, from mille ‘thousand’ + the augmentative suffix -one.
Idioms
See million in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee million in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishlook/feel like a million dollars/bucks
- (informal) to look/feel extremely good
- Wow, you look like a million dollars.
one, etc. in a million
- a person or thing that is very unusual or special
- He's a man in a million.
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