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million(dictionary)
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million (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: French; Origin: Old Italian milione, from mille 'thousand', from Latin; MILLI-]
the number 1,000,000
::Each of the books sold more than a million copies.
two/three/four etc million
::seven million dollars
::¡ê37 million of new investment
millions of pounds/dollars etc
::Millions of pounds were lost in Western aid.
an extremely large number of people or things
a million
::I've got a million ideas.
millions of sth
::She seems to have millions of friends.
not/never in a million years
spoken used to emphasize that something is impossible or very unlikely to happen
::She'll never believe me. Not in a million years.
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
informal especially AmE to look very attractive or feel very happy and healthy
in a million
informal a) the best of all possible people or things
::She's a wife in a million.
::He's so generous. He's one in a million .
b) used to show how unlikely something is
::It was a chance in a million that we'd find a fossil.
-- millionth adj
::The park has just received its millionth visitor.
-- millionth n [C]