MILLION, noun mil'yun. [Latin mille, a thousand.] 1. The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand. It is used as a noun or an adjective; as a million of men, or a million men. As a noun, it has a regular plural, millions. 2. In common usage, a very great number, indefinitely. There are millions of truths that men are not concerned to know.
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