mil‧lion /ˈmɪljən/ BrE AmE number, noun (plural million or millions)
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: French; Origin: Old Italian milione, from mille 'thousand', from Latin; ⇨ ↑milli-]
1. the number 1,000,000:
The book sold more than a million copies.
two/three/four etc million
seven million dollars
£37 million of new investment
millions of pounds/dollars etc
Millions of pounds were lost in Western aid.
2. an extremely large number of people or things
a million
I’ve got a million ideas.
millions of something
She has millions of friends.
3. not/never in a million years spoken used to emphasize that something is impossible or very unlikely to happen:
She’ll never believe me. Not in a million years.
4. look/feel like a million dollars/bucks informal especially American English to look very attractive or feel very happy and healthy
5. in a million informal
a) the best of all possible people or things:
She’s a wife in a million.
He’s so generous. He’s one in a million.
b) used to show how unlikely something is:
It was a chance in a million that we’d find a fossil.
—millionth adjective:
The park has just received its millionth visitor.
—millionth noun [countable]
m\\millionhu1,000,000
million
A million is a thousand thousands. The dinosaurs lived millions of years ago.
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| ◎ | ['miljən] |
| ※ | tính từ |
| | ■ | (sau a hoặc one, dùng để chỉ số lượng, không có dạng số nhiều) một nghìn nghìn; triệu (1000000) |
| ※ | danh từ |
| | ■ | (số ít sau a hoặc one, nhưng (thường) số nhiều) con số 1000000 |
| | ☆ | she made her first million before she was thirty |
| | cô ấy làm ra được con số triệu (pao hoặc đô la chẳng hạn) đầu tiên trước khi bước vào tuổi ba mươi |
| | 〆 | one ... in a million |
| | ✓ | người hoặc vật có phẩm chất hiếm thấy; hiếm có; trong muôn một |
| | ☆ | she's a wife in a million |
| | bà ấy là một người vợ hiếm có |
| | ☆ | we haven't a chance in a million of winning |
| | chúng ta hầu như không có cơ may thắng |
