Million

Million

One million (1,000,000) or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The word is derived from the early Italian millione (milione in modern Italian), from mille, "thousand", plus the augmentative suffix -one.

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Famous quotes containing the word million:

    “The ancestral deed is thought and done,
    And in a million Edens fall
    A million Adams drowned in darkness,
    For small is great and great is small,
    And a blind seed all.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)

    ““M” is for the million things she gave me,
    “O” means only that she’s growing old.”
    —Howard Johnson (1887–1941)

    “A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and play.”
    —David Duncan (b.1913)