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million
million /ˈmɪljən/ 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]