# million

Pronunciation: say "MIL-yuhn" /ˈmɪljən/

## Numeral

1. The cardinal number 1,000,000, equal to one thousand times one thousand, or ten to the sixth power.
   - Simple: The number equal to a thousand thousands, written as 1,000,000.
   - _The lottery jackpot reached fifty million dollars before anyone claimed it._
   - _Astronomers estimate the cluster contains hundreds of millions of stars._
2. A very large but unspecified number, used loosely to suggest a great many. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: A very large number, used when the exact amount does not matter.
   - _There are a million reasons not to quit your job right now._
   - _He must have tried a million times before the trick finally worked._

## Origin

This word came through Old French from Italian "milione," formed from "mille" ("thousand," from Latin "mille") plus the suffix "-one."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/million (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).