Etimology
From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”), from mille (“thousand”) (from Latin mille) + the augmentative suffix -one. Compare -illion.
numeral
million (plural millions)
(long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106; a thousand thousand.
(colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.
Examples
I told you a million times before.
I can think of millions of reasons not to go.
Let him bring millions infinite of men,Unpeopling weſterne Affrica and Greece:Yet we aſſure vs of the victorie.
Related words
related terms
thousand
billion
trillion