Million definition
Million is a noun meaning "the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros." It has 3 meanings, as a noun and an adjective, listed below with an example sentence.
- Part of speech
- noun, adjective
- Syllables
- 2
- Letters
- 7
- How common
- Everyday word
Million as a noun
the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
Same sense: one thousand thousand, meg
a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)
"there were millions of flies"
Same sense: billion, trillion, zillion, gazillion, bazillion, jillion
Million as an adjective
(in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units
Synonyms and antonyms
- one thousand thousand
- meg
- billion
- trillion
- zillion
- gazillion
- bazillion
- jillion
How to say million
Million has 2 syllables and rhymes with billion. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with million
- billion
- civilian
- trillion
- pavilion
- multimillion
- reptilian
- vermilion
- zillion
- vermillion
- multibillion
- pillion
- vaudevillian
MILLION in word games
- Scrabble
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Anagrams
- 0
Is MILLION a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check MILLION in the word checker, or unscramble MILLION to see the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.