million
n.n. the number 1,000,000. You use it to talk about a very large amount of people or things.
n. the cardinal number equal to ten to the power of six. Often used hyperbolically in informal speech to indicate an indefinitely large quantity.
The city has a population of over one million.
The charity raised more than a million dollars to build the new children's hospital.
Even with a million stars visible in the night sky, the sheer scale of the galaxy remains difficult for the human mind to comprehend fully.
From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”, from mille (“thousand”, from Latin mille) + -one). Compare -illion.
When used as a specific number, it remains singular ('two million'); it becomes plural ('millions') when used as an indefinite large amount followed by 'of'.
three millions peoplethree million peopleWhen used with a specific number, 'million' acts as a determiner and does not take a plural 's'.