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Million   /mˈɪljən/   Listen
Million

noun
1.
The number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros.  Synonyms: 1000000, meg, one thousand thousand.
2.
A very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole).  Synonyms: billion, gazillion, jillion, trillion, zillion.
adjective
1.
(in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units.



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"Million" Quotes from Famous Books



... thousand years of pardon for deadly sins graunted of oure holy father Jhon xxii pope of Rome.' The three prayers only occupy twenty-six short lines, and may be gravely repeated in two minutes. Such was and IS Popery!! But at the end of all this promised pardon for a million of years—what then? Will eternal ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... the feathered world the destruction of the eggs goes on on such a tremendous scale that eggs are the chief food of several species in the early summer; not to, say a word of the storms, the inundations which destroy nests by the million in America, and the sudden changes of weather which are fatal to the young mammals. Each storm, each inundation, each visit of a rat to a bird's nest, each sudden change of temperature, take away those competitors which ...
— Mutual Aid • P. Kropotkin
... operation, and thy minds divide thee not to disaster. Thy very ego, is it not but thy president, the voice of all thy members, representative of all that thy race has made thee to be, effect of ten million causes, and cause of effects thou canst not see? Let thy ego strengthen itself, deal justly, rule wisely, that thy state fall not behind in this world-progress and be lost out of time and out of mind, in a night without a dawn. There have been such things: over against ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston
... years. In my first ten to fifteen years, I preached (at intervals) as many as six sermons a day, three in Norwegian and three in English. In all I have preached something over 17,000 sermons, and have traveled over one million miles. I have crossed the Atlantic Ocean seventeen times one way, and preached a good many times on ...
— Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag • S. O. Susag
... the axe and the spade for the pike and bow and arrows. Led by knights, on whose armour a red Cross was emblazoned, the people poured out in their millions for the first Crusade. It is said that in the spring of 1096 an "expeditionary force" of six million people was ...
— The Book of Missionary Heroes • Basil Mathews


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