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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Million  \Mil"lion\,  n.  [F.,  from  LL  millio,  fr  L.  mille  a 
  thousand.  See  {Mile}.] 
  1.  The  number  of  ten  hundred  thousand,  or  a  thousand 
  thousand,  --  written  1,000,  000.  See  the  Note  under 
  {Hundred}. 
 
  2.  A  very  great  number;  an  indefinitely  large  number. 
 
  Millions  of  truths  that  a  man  is  not  concerned  to 
  know  --Locke. 
 
  3.  The  mass  of  common  people;  --  with  the  article  the 
 
  For  the  play,  I  remember,  pleased  not  the  million. 
  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  million 
  adj  :  (in  Roman  numerals;  M  written  with  a  macron  over  it) 
  denoting  a  quantity  consisting  of  1,000,000  items  or 
  units  [syn:  {a  million}] 
  n  :  the  number  that  is  represented  as  a  one  followed  by  6  zeros 
  [syn:  {1000000},  {one  thousand  thousand},  {meg}] 




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