Other forms: millions
A million is a one followed by six zeros. A million pounds, millions of people, one in a million.
It is the point at which most people stop being able to picture a number, since a million seconds is eleven days and a billion is thirty-two years. The Italian behind it means a great thousand.
1nounmillionA one followed by six zeros.
“The house by the river sold for over a million pounds.”
million is a number.
Italian milione means a great thousand, from mille, a thousand, plus an augmentative ending.
Proto-Indo-European
*sem-
Middle English
milioun
English, today
million
From Middle English milioun. Middle English milioun, from Middle French milion, from Old French millon, from Italian milione (“million”). Compare -illion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA