- The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000,000. See the Note under Hundred.
- A very great number; an indefinitely large number." Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know." [Locke.]
- The mass of common people; -- with the article the."For the play, I remember, pleased not the million." [Shak.]
Etymology: F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a thousand. See Mile