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# million

«million» in Mova's school dictionary: **the number 1,000,000: a thousand thousands** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

number; noun (a million, millions; two million)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A million is the number 1,000,000: a thousand thousands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/million/#m1)

2) Millions or a million can mean a very large number, not exact (informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/million/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, a million has six zeros: 1,000,000 = 1000 × 1000. Place value: millions, hundred thousands, ten thousands, thousands, hundreds, tens, ones. Populations of cities and countries are given in millions. In stories and talk, "a million times" means very many times. Phrases: a million, two million, millions of, one in a million (very rare or special), a millionaire.

### examples

- A million is a thousand thousands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/million/#x1)
- The city has about two million people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/million/#x2)
- There are millions of stars in the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/million/#x3)
- I've told you a million times! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/million/#x4)
- Write one million in figures: 1,000,000. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/million/#x5)
- She is one in a million. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/million/#x6)
- Light travels about three hundred million metres a second. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/million/#x7)
- One could see the bottom, leagues below, millions of miles below. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/million/#x8)

### note

After a number, million has no s: two million, five million people. Use "millions of" without a number: millions of ants. 1 million = 1,000,000 = 10 × 100,000. A billion is a thousand millions (1,000,000,000). "A million times" is an exaggeration, not a real count — do not use it in calculation.

### In the corpora

- [Plane crashes and terror attacks are on the news because they are very rare; millions of flights land safely every day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/14/)
- [A public apology is judged by what the person does next; saying sorry in front of millions is hard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/20/)
- [AI "tasted" millions of sentences or pictures in the same way and learned what usually goes together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/2/)
- [Picture-making AI learned from millions of pictures with descriptions and builds new pictures that fit the words.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/15/)
- [A dog's nose has hundreds of millions of smell receptors, while a human nose has about 5 or 6 million.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «million» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/million/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.