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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Million \Mil"lion\ (m[i^]l"y[u^]n), noun [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}.
2. A very great number; an indefinitely large number.
Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know. --Locke.
3. The mass of common people; -- with the article the.
For the play, I remember, pleased not the million. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
million
adjective: (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units [syn: {a million}]
noun: the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros [syn: {1000000}, {one thousand thousand}, {meg}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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