MILLION

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred

2.
n.

A very great number; an indefinitely large number. Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know. Locke.

3.
n.

The mass of common people; -- with the article the. For the play, I remember, pleased not the million. Shak.


← MILLING M — all words MILLIONAIRE →