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.
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