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:

    “When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it’s so petty.”
    —Imelda Marcos (b. 1929)

    “Mister Ward, don’t yur blud bile at the thawt that three million and a half of your culled brethren air a clanking their chains in the South?—Sez I, not a bile! Let ‘em clank!”
    —Artemus Ward (1834–1867)