million

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million - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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million - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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 - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "million":
     a billion, a crore, a lakh, a million, a myriad, a nonillion,
     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