million

noun

mil·lion ˈmi(l)-yən

plural millions or million

Synonyms of million next

: a number equal to 1,000 times 1,000 see Table of Numbers

: a very large number

millions of cars on the road

: the mass of common people

—used with the

million adjective

millionfold

ˈmi(l)-yən-ˌfōld

adverb or adjective

millionth

ˈmi(l)-yən(t)th

adjective or noun

Examples of million in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There is a perception that AI will ultimately cause a permanent shift in labor demand that will disrupt the work life of millions of Americans whose jobs will be lost, diminished or revamped partly through artificial intelligence. —

Jack Kelly, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023 Such high-energy cosmic rays contain tens of millions of times the energy of particles in accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider on Earth, Glennys Farrar, a physicist at New York University who did not contribute to the findings, tells CNN. —

Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023 That’s millions of people on the ground in all of the early states that want to see a change in our country. —

Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 29 Nov. 2023 As Vanuatu and so many other Pacific nations scramble to rebuild before the next storm comes, there are millions of lives and livelihoods on the line. —

Josephine Latu-Sanft, Scientific American, 29 Nov. 2023 Yet the post-opening rally quickly fizzled out–and now China’s economy is, in some respects, doing worse than last year, when officials confined millions of people in their homes. —

Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023 The release also says that 4 million COVID tests are being distributed each week — a number expected to increase as school districts take advantage of the new program, which will draw from an existing stockpile of hundreds of millions of tests. —

C Mandler, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023 The city of Denver has spent millions of dollars in the last year transporting thousands of migrants to other parts of the country, officials confirmed this week. —

Adam Shaw, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2023 Because of her early leadership and childhood immunization, millions of Americans have grown up healthier. —

Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023 See More

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