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million Determiner

— (ordinal millionth) The number 1,000,000. In 2006, Canada had about 32.6 million people.

million Noun

— The number 1,000,000. One thousand thousand is a million. In the US, there are one thousand millions in a billion. In the UK, there are one million millions in a billion.

million

— adjective (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units — noun the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros — noun a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) there were millions of flies

Synonyms million synonyms

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million English » English

trillion one million zillion m jillion gazillion billion one thousand thousand mega meg a million M 1000000

Topics million topics

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States Quantity Number

Cardinal numbers

numbers larger than one thousand

million billion trillion quadrillion

States Time Aspectual time Once

Never

What words indicate that something that never happens?

never not ever never once not once never for a moment not for a moment never ever at no time not in a million years never in a million years have never been known to do something

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Simple sentences

One million people lost their lives in the war.

Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.

Yokohama is a city where more than three million people live.

It is estimated that there are over half a million words in English.

What would you do if you had a million dollars?

If I had one million yen now, I would buy a car.

Car production in that year reached a record 10 million vehicles.

The dictionary contains about half a million words.

This is worth one million yen.

If you were to be given a million yen, what would you do with it?

The population of Canada is about 26 million.

I've seen it a million times.

In the United States, 20 million new jobs have been created during the past two decades, most of them in the service sector.

Is it about ten million yen?

Suppose you had ten million yen, what would you do?

Diet accounts for more than one million deaths.

The hijacker demanded a ransom of two million dollars.

The probability of this chain of events is one in two million flights - about once every two months at current levels of air traffic.

Movie subtitles

With a population of up to a million, the city was probably the largest in the world.

China had to pay an indemnity of 21 million silver dollars, cede the island of Hong Kong, and open five ports to British trade, including this one.

At 1 49 million kilometres away, the Earth is at just the right place for water to exist as a liquid.

But searching for another Earth is like trying to find a needle in a million haystacks.

Wow, that's almost 1 0 million square inches in this field.

If you can check out a few million star systems, you have a really good chance of finding a signal from ET.

If you can't find the answer, you will be put in the hell of all the hells, and you will suffer all the pains which you can't get away from even after 10 million times of eternity.

I asked you a million times who you were sleeping with, and you lied to me.

She has a million yoga stories like these.

Look, there are a million reasons that your dad should be proud of you.

A million views?!

Five million dollars. To Cal Roberts.

We have 2.1 million Instagram followers.

A million, maybe more.

Per hydrogen atom it happens once every ten million years!

Imagine, ten million years.

Barely 30,000 men vs. 3 million Arabs in a country 3 times the size of France.

Algeria has 3.5 million people. It can feed 20.

You want us to fight 3 million Arabs all by ourselves?

It would seem that we occur in a ratio of about one in 10 million.

In the arc of a few centuries, over 8 million women, men and children were burned as witches.

A million dollars.

Me and a million other artists.

A million guys in this town, and you had to pick the crime commissioner.

You just staged a scene that'd play like a million.

And it was more than a million dollars.

More than a million dollars?

Dickson got away with several million.

With five million euros?

We will sell at a profit of a half a million in gold.

I'd play the same system if I could get a man with 6 million dollars.

Jerry hasn't 6 million kopeks.

Well, I wouldn't quit for a million dollars.

BUT IT'S HALF A MILLION, YOUR GRACE.

MY DEAR FELLOW, IF I CAN'T PAY IT, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHETHER IT'S HALF A FRANC OR 10 MILLION?

Have I got a million dollars?

I've got a million questions to ask you.

He was a very rich man. with a quarter of a million acres in the Crimea, and an ardent sportsman.

So you've said before, about a million times more or less.

News and current affairs

This small piece of Russia, with 1 million inhabitants and bordering on the Baltic Sea, is squeezed between Poland and Lithuania, two future members of the EU.

Nearly one billion people are trapped in chronic hunger - perhaps 100 million more than two years ago.

This rich habitat supports remarkable biodiversity - or did before the oil companies got there - and more than 30 million local inhabitants, who depend on the local ecosystems for their health and livelihoods.

One estimate puts the cumulative spills over the past 50 years at approximately 10 million barrels - twice the size of the BP spill.

An estimated five million people were stranded or delayed.

I estimate that Euro 750 million in the first year, Euro 500 million in the second year and Euro 250 million in the third year would do the trick.

The reduction is even more impressive when one considers that 57 million additional energy consumers were added to the US population over the past two decades.

They provide the principal source of protein for over ten million people worldwide.

Indeed, even German unemployment, which has been rising in cycles since 1970, will decline slightly in 2006, from 4.8 to 4.7 million.

This work is set to expand as more than 40 million tons of invasive alien plants are harvested for power-station fuel.

The 42 countries that are part of the HIPC initiative have a combined population of around 700 million.

Diseases are rampant, including an AIDs epidemic that killed around 2 million people in Africa last year, and malaria, which took more than 1 million lives.

As for Lubanga, he is one of many in the Congo who has used civilians as pawns in a war that has cost more than five million lives in the past decade.

As many as seven million Africans who should be getting treatment for HIV are not.

Worldwide, the number is about 10 million.

A total of almost 1.5 million young soldiers from both North and South Korea face off against each across the heavily armed Demilitarized Zone.

That reversal is one of the great under-reported stories of 2011 (and of the preceding two years), and the numbers are startling. Consider Spain, which is on track to lose more than a half-million residents by 2020.

The name comes from the number of parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that, according to Jim Hansen, perhaps the world's leading climate scientist, we should not exceed if we are to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change.

In Cameroon, where cotton is the main source of income for nearly five million people, record crops were posted last year and the year before.

The US alone imports 1.5 million barrels a day from West Africa, the same amount it imports from Saudi Arabia.

Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth, and one of the poorest - 1.5 million of us live on a patch of land about 41 kilometers long and 6-12 kilometers wide.

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