million

The cardinal number equal to 10⁶.

A million monetary units, such as dollars.

An indefinitely large number.

The common people; the masses.

An obsolete or dialectal form of melon.

The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand.

The amount of a thousand thousand units of money, as pounds, dollars, or francs: as, he is worth a million; millions have been wasted in preparation for war.

A very great number or quantity, indefinitely.

[Strictly a collective noun: see hundred.] A thousand times one thousand; ten hundred thousand: as, a capital of a (or one) million dollars; a country of ten million inhabitants.

The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, — written 1,000,000. See the Note under hundred.