number (plural verb)
1 (abbreviation m) 1000000
HELPNOTE You say a, one, two, several, etc. million without a final 's' on 'million'. Millions (of...) can be used if there is no number or quantity before it. Always use a plural verb with million or millions.:
a population of half a million * tens of millions of dollars * It must be worth a million (= pounds, dollars, etc.)
2 a million or millions (of...) (informal) a very large amount:
I still have a million things to do. * He made his millions (= all his money) on currency deals.
HELPNOTE There are more examples of how to use numbers at the entry for hundred.
IDIOMS
look / feel like a million dollars / bucks (informal) to look/feel extremely good:
Wow, you look like a million dollars.
one, etc. in a million a person or thing that is very unusual or special:
He's a man in a million.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for million is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does million appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — million appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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