million

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

mil·lion [million millions] BrE [ˈmɪljən] NAmE [ˈmɪljən] number
(plural verb)
1. (abbr.m)1 000 000
•a population of half a million
•tens of millions of dollars
•It must be worth a million (= pounds, dollars, etc.)  You say a, one, two, several, etc. million without a final ‘s’ on ‘million’. Millions (of…) can be used if there is no number or quantity before it. Always use a plural verb with million or millions, except when an amount of money is mentioned
•Four million (people) were affected.
•Two million (pounds) was withdrawn from the account.
2. a millionor millions (of…) (informal)a very large amount
• I still have a million things to do.
• There were millions of people there.
•He made his millions (= all his money) on currency deals.  There are more examples of how to use numbers at the entry for hundred.
Idioms: ↑look like a million bucks ▪ ↑one in a million

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, probably from Italian milione, from mille ‘thousand’ + the augmentative suffix -one.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  billion, trillion, zillion, jillion, gazillion, 1000000, one thousand thousand, meg