million
(adjective) (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units
million, one thousand thousand, meg
(noun) the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
million, billion, trillion, zillion, jillion, gazillion, bazillion
(noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole); “there were millions of flies”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
million
(long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106; a thousand thousand.
(colloquial, hyperbole) An unspecified very large number.
Source: Wiktionary
Mil"lion, n. Etym: [F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a thousand. See Mile.]
1. The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred
2. A very great number; an indefinitely large number. Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know. Locke.
3. The mass of common people; -- with the article the. For the play, I remember, pleased not the million. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 December 2024
(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
