million

1. 1.The cardinal number 1 000 000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand (1,000²).

   • One million people lost their lives in the war.
   • At present there are about 31 million Americans over the age of sixty-five.

2. 2.An unspecified very large number.(colloquial)

   • I told you a million times before.
   • I can think of millions of reasons not to go.
   • Up and round and through caves and out over precipices at a million miles an hour. The girls are behind me and I'm holding Matt, what a buzz.

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