Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - million
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~ plural million or millions number, quantifier 1 1,000,000 (three million dollars | a population of 12 million people) 2 also millions an extremely large number of people or things (Millions of people will see that film. | He made millions (=a lot of money) on that deal. | I've heard that excuse a million times.) 3 not/never in a million years spoken used to emphasize that something is impossible or very unlikely to happen (I'd never marry him - not in a million years.) 4 feel/look like a million dollars/bucks informal especially AmE to feel or look very well or very attractive (Wow! You look like a million dollars tonight!) 5 one in a million also a wife/teacher/writer etc in a million informal one of the best possible wives, teachers etc - millionth determiner, n, pronoun adj
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(millions) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: The plural form is 'million' after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as ‘several’ or ‘a few’. 1. A million or one million is the number 1,000,000. Up to five million people a year visit the county... Profits for 1999 topped ?100 million. NUM 2. If you talk about millions of people or things, you mean that there is a very large number of them but you do not know or do not want to say exactly how many. The programme was viewed on television in millions of homes. QUANT-PLURAL: QUANT of pl-n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun (plural ~s or ~) Etymology: Middle English milioun, from Middle French milion, from Old Italian milione, augmentative of mille thousand, from Latin Date: 14th century 1. — see number table 2. a very large number ~s of cars on the road 3. the mass of common people someone who writes for the ~s — Bergen Evans • ~ adjective • ~fold adverb or adjective • ~th adjective or noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. --n. (pl. same or (in sense 2) millions) (in sing. prec. by a or one) 1 a thousand thousand. 2 (in pl.) colloq. a very large number (millions of years). 3 (prec. by the) the bulk of the population. 4 a Brit. a million pounds. b US a million dollars. --adj. that amount to a million. Phrases and idioms gone a million Austral. sl. completely defeated. Derivatives millionfold adj. & adv. millionth adj. & n. Etymology: ME f. OF, prob. f. It. millione f. mille thousand + -one augment. suffix ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1. миллион (количество) a million (of) men —- миллион человек to count by the million —- считать миллионами a quarter of a million men —- четверть миллиона (двести пятьдесят тысяч) человек half a million men —- полмиллиона (пятьсот тысяч) человек 2. обыкн. pl. миллионы, огромное количество millions of people —- миллионы людей 3. миллион фунтов стерлингов, долларов и т. п. they have millions and millions —- у них миллионы, они миллионеры an inheritance of a million —- миллионное наследство he made a cool million —- он заработал (нажил, сколотил) кругленькую сумму в миллион (долларов, фунтов и т. п.) 4. в грам. знач. числительного: (число) миллион one million —- один миллион a million and one —- миллион один four million thousand one hundred and one —- четыре миллиона одна тысяча сто один the million-one-thousand-one-hundred-and-first, the million-one-thousand-one-hundred-and-second, etc —- миллион тысяча сто первый, миллион тысяча сто второй и т.д. Id: the million —- множество; основная масса населения Id: to be worth millions —- иметь миллионы Id: to talk in millions —- употреблять в речи большие цифры, оперировать астрономическими цифрами Id: in a million —- несравненный; очень маленький, ничтожный Id: he is a man (one) in a million —- таких людей больше нет (не бывает), он самый лучший человек на свете Id: you have one chance in a million —- у тебя почти нет...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. num. card. миллион; ten million books - десять миллионов книг; the total is four million - итого четыре миллиона 2. noun 1) число миллион 2) - the million ...Англо-русский словарь
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- c.1340, from O.Fr. million (c.1270), from It. milione, augmentive of mille "thousand," from L. mille. Used mainly by mathematicians until 16c. India, with its love of large numbers, had names before 3c. for numbers well beyond a billion. The ancient Greeks had no name for a number greater than ten thousand, the Romans for none higher than a hundred thousand. "A million" in L. would have been decies centena milia, lit. "ten hundred thousand." Millionaire first attested 1826 (in reference to John Jacob Astor), borrowed from Fr. millionnaire (1762). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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