Meaning and Origin
What does the name Million mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- 2 people from Nigeria and Papua New Guinea agree the name Million is of English / Hawaiian origin and means "God's gift".
- 2 people from Sweden and Norway agree the name Million is of Eritrea / English origin and means "More".
- A submission from the United Kingdom says the name Million means "Legend and understanding also very fortunate".
- The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000,000. See the Note under Hundred.
- A very great number; an indefinitely large number." Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know." [Locke.]
- The mass of common people; -- with the article the."For the play, I remember, pleased not the million." [Shak.]
Etymology: F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a thousand. See Mile
- The number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
- A very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) ("there were millions of flies")
- (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units