MILLION


Meaning of MILLION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ mɪliən ]

( 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

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