Definition: million

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

million
     adj : (in Roman numerals; M written with a macron over it)
           denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or
           units [syn: a million]
     n : the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
         [syn: 1000000, one thousand thousand, meg]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Million \Mil"lion\, n. [F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a
   thousand. See Mile.]
   1. The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand
      thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under
      Hundred.

   2. A very great number; an indefinitely large number.

            Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to
            know.                                 --Locke.

   3. The mass of common people; -- with the article the.

            For the play, I remember, pleased not the million.
                                                  --Shak.