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Webster 1913 Edition
Million
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
. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Million
MILLION
,Noun.
1.
The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand. It is used as a noun or an adjective; as a million of men, or a million men. As a noun, it has a regular plural, millions.2.
In common usage, a very great number, indefinitely. There are millions of truths that men are not concerned to know.