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noun

Million n.

The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, written 1,000,000. See the Note under Hundred.

A very great number; an indefinitely large number. "Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know."

The mass of common people; with the article the. "For the play, I remember, pleased not the million."

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Etymology of 'Million'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Million" Quotes from Famous Books

... purely mechanical. The fair, which was supposed to be open for forty days, was, in later times, generally completed in ten or twelve. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the volume of business transacted was estimated to amount to thirty or forty million pounds sterling.[21] ...

— The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century • Clarence Henry Haring

... laughter; then the bidding went steadily on until it reached nine hundred thousand francs, which I knew to be less than half the reserve the Government had placed upon the necklace. The contest advanced more slowly until the million and a half was touched, and there it hung fire for a time, while the auctioneer remarked that this sum did not equal that which the maker of the necklace had been finally forced to accept for it. After another pause he added that, as the reserve was not exceeded, ...

— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr

... in the immensity of the population. Great cities are surprisingly numerous. In America, a city of nearly a million inhabitants is a wonderful place and all the world is supposed to know about it. But while Canton and Tien-tsin are tolerably familiar names, how many in the United States ever heard of Hsiang-tan-hsien ? Yet Hsiang-tan- hsien is ...

— An Inevitable Awakening • ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN

... we could almost feel the very atmosphere on guard. We did not see the little subject of so much concern, but I remembered his much heralded advent, when his grandparents had settled a cold million on him, just as a reward for coming into the world. Evidently, Morton, Sr., had hoped that Morton, Jr., would calm down, now that there was a third generation to consider. It seemed that he had not. I wondered if that had really been ...

— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve

... Creator, and the free-will of a Creature, is direct, palpable, absolute. We might as well talk of black-whiteness and of white-blackness. A hundred generations of divines have never been able to ree the riddle; a million will fail. The difficulty is insurmountable to the Theist whose Almighty is perforce Omniscient, and as Omniscient, Prescient. But it disappears when we convert the Person into Law, or a settled order of events; subject, ...

— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton

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