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mil⋅lion

  [mil-yuhn] noun, plural -lions, (as after a numeral) -lion, adjective
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–noun
1. a cardinal number, a thousand times one thousand.
2. a symbol for this number, as 1,000,000 or M̅.
3. millions, a number between 1,000,000 and 999,999,999, as in referring to an amount of money: His fortune was in the millions of dollars.
4. the amount of a thousand thousand units of money, as pounds, dollars, or francs: The three Dutch paintings fetched a million.
5. a very great number of times: Thanks a million.
6. the million or the millions, the mass of the common people; the multitude: poetry for the millions.
–adjective
7. amounting to one million in number.
8. amounting to a very great number: a million things to do.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME milioun < MF < early It millione, equiv. to mille thousand (< L) + -one aug. suffix
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Main Entry:  multimillion
Part of Speech:  adj
Definition:  pertaining to several million units of something
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Word Origin & History

million 
1362, from O.Fr. million (c.1270), from It. millione (now milione), lit. "a great thousand," augmentative of mille "thousand," from L. mille. Used mainly by mathematicians until 16c. India, with its love of large numbers, had names before 3c. for numbers well beyond a billion. The ancient Greeks had no name for a number greater than ten thousand, the Romans for none higher than a hundred thousand. "A million" in L. would have been decies centena milia, lit. "ten hundred thousand." Millionaire first attested 1826, borrowed from Fr. millionnaire (1762). The first in America is said to have been John Jacob Astor (1763-1848). Million to one as a type of "long odds" is attested from 1761.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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