million

plural millions

1. The cardinal number 1 000 000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand (1,000²).

   Near-synonyms: mega-, M-

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   SLM parameters usually range from a few million to a few billion.

   Doctors in Nigeria have criticized a mass national identification registration policy, involving tens of millions of citizens, as Covid-19 cases and deaths rise in the country. […] So far, only 56 million NINs have been collected by mobile operators, according to a federal government press release.

   2021 February 10, Eoin McSweeney, “As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos”, in CNN

   Synonyms: mega-, mul:M-

2. colloquialexcessiveAn unspecified very large number.

   I told you a million times before.

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   Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion

   I can think of millions of reasons not to go.

   Let him bring millions infinite of men, Unpeopling weſterne Affrica and Greece: Yet we aſſure vs of the victorie.

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii

   Time stood still and we were lost on words to say / And though the people stared, they seemed a million miles away / Oh, we knew it was love we were feeling / We were destined to give it a whole new meaning

   1981, Chaka Khan, “Fate”, in What Cha' Gonna Do for Me

   Up and round and through caves and out over precipices at a million miles an hour. The girls are behind me and I'm holding Matt, what a buzz.

   1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 38

   Synonyms: gazillion