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Webster 1913 Edition


Million

Mil′lion

(mĭl′yŭn)
,
Noun.
[F., from LL.
millio
, fr. L.
mille
a thousand. See
Mile
.]
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.
mil'yun. [L. mille, a thousand.]
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.