million

1. 1.

   (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units

   Similarcardinal

Other forms of million

plural

millions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about million

What does million mean?

million means "the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in million?

million has 2 syllables: mil-lion. The stress falls on "mil". In IPA it is /ˈmɪljən/.

What is another word for million?

Close synonyms include 1000000, one thousand thousand, meg, billion, trillion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is million a common word?

million is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with million?

2 words rhyme with million. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.