million

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĭl′yən, IPA^(key): /ˈmɪljən/, [ˈmɪʎən]
• Hyphenation: mil‧lion
• Rhymes: -ɪljən

Numeral

million (plural millions)

1. (long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand.
2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.

Usage notes

• Until the early 20th century, million behaved much like an ordinary quantificational noun (such as pair or handful). That is, it inflected in the plural when modified by a numeral greater than 1, and was separated from the noun it quantified with of, as in: five millions of pounds (rather than the modern equivalent, five million pounds).

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Hawaiian: miliona
• → Maori: miriona
• → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
• → Welsh: miliwn
• → Yoruba: mílíọ̀nù

Translations

See also

• (short scale) Previous: thousand. Next: billion
• (long scale) Previous: thousand. Next: milliard
• (Ordinal) millionth
• ISO prefix: mega-
• mega

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From French million.

Numeral

million

1. million

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed via French million from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [miliˈoˀn], [milˈjoˀn]

Numeral

million

1. A million, 10⁶.

Noun

million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)

1. a million

Declension

References

• “million” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French million, from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ljɔ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Numeral

million m (plural millions)

1. million (10⁶)

Derived terms

• millionnaire

Descendants

• → Crimean Tatar: million
• Louisiana Creole: milyon
• → Polish: milion, milon, milijon, milian (Middle Polish), miljon (pre-reform orthography (1936))

Further reading

• “million”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Interlingua

Noun

million (plural milliones)

1. million
   • 2012, Panorama in Interlingua, September-October, p. 24:

Numeral

un million

1. a million, one million

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French million, probably borrowed from Italian milione.

Noun

million m (plural millions)

1. million, 10⁶.

Descendants

• French: million
  • → Crimean Tatar: million
• → Catalan: milió
• → Dutch: miljoen, millioen (obsolete)
  • Afrikaans: miljoen
  • Negerhollands: millioon
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: melyun
  • → Caribbean Javanese: milyun
• → English: million
  • → Hawaiian: miliona
  • → Maori: miriona
  • → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
  • → Welsh: miliwn
• → Irish: milliún

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian milione.

Numeral

million

1. A million, 10⁶.

Noun

million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millioner, definite plural millionene)

1. a million

References

• “million” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian milione.

Numeral

million

1. a million, 10⁶.

Noun

million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millionar, definite plural millionane)

1. a million

References

• “million” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

million c

1. Obsolete spelling of miljon.

Declension

Tatar

Numeral

million (Cyrillic spelling миллион)

1. million

Uzbek

Numeral

million

1. million

Derived terms

• millioninchi (“millionth”)