million Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
    meg; 1000000; one thousand thousand.
  2. noun a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)
    billion; jillion; trillion; gazillion; zillion.
    • there were millions of flies
  3. adjective satellite (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units

WordNet

Mil"lion noun
Etymology
F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a thousand. See Mile.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913