Dictionary entry

Million

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mil″lion (mĭl″yŭn), 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.