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How to pronounce million in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms 1000000, meg, one thousand thousand
Type of large integer
Type Words
Synonyms bazillion, billion, gazillion, jillion, trillion, zillion
Type of large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity


there were millions of flies.
Type Words

Examples of million

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Last December, it put $175 million into LivingSocial for a stake in the company.
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Three years after that, the district would face a deficit of nearly $13 million.
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Almost 32 million people traveled through O'Hare in 2009, according to the suit.
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This year food bank employees and volunteers will be handling 40 million pounds.
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Officials anticipate the figure will climb to $8 million by the end of December.
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Monsanto paid its chief executive, Hugh Grant, a total of $13 million last year.
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Since that filing, the foundation has given away at least $50 million in grants.
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Callahan said the estimates of total loss are from $450 million to $600 million.
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Pedott bought the rights to the novelty in 1977 and sells half a million a year.
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  • (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units
  • The number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
  • A very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole); "there were millions of flies"
  • One million (1,000,000) or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The name is derived from Latin, where mille was 1,000, and 1,000,000 became milione, "a large thousand".
  • Million+, formerly known as the Campaign for Mainstream Universities (CMU) is the membership group of 27 UK universities incorporated post-1992 and university colleges. Many have long histories as colleges and subsequently polytechnics.
  • (Millions (band)) Millions is a noise rock band from Chicago, Illinois.
  • (Millions (disambiguation)) Millions is a 2004 British film, directed by Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle, and starring Alexander Etel, Lewis McGibbon, and James Nesbitt. The screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce adapted his novel while the film was in the process of being made. ...
  • (The Millions) The Millions is an online literary magazine. It contains articles about literary topics and book reviews. The Millions has been online since March 2003 and has become a premiere destination for literary discussion on the Web. ...
  • People in the U.S. are involved in direct selling