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{
"term": "million",
"partOfSpeech": "number",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "1 000 000",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a population of half a million"
},
{
"text": "tens of millions of dollars"
},
{
"text": "It must be worth a million *(= pounds, dollars, etc.)*."
},
{
"text": "millions of years old"
},
{
"text": "These fossils were millions of years in the making."
},
{
"text": "Millions of people now visit the Lake District each year."
},
{
"text": "A few million doesn't buy you what it used to."
},
{
"text": "The foundation has donated millions of dollars to charitable causes."
}
],
"topics": ["Maths and measurement"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a very large amount",
"labels": "(informal)",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I still have a million things to do."
},
{
"text": "There were millions of people there."
},
{
"text": "He **made** his **millions** *(= all his money)* on currency deals."
},
{
"text": "Was this the way to feed the world 's starving millions?"
},
{
"text": "The event must have cost millions."
},
{
"text": "Big hotels are spending millions to hire celebrity chefs."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to look/feel extremely good",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Wow, you look like a million dollars."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a person or thing that is very unusual or special",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's a man in a million."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmɪljən/",
"audio": "mi/million/million__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmɪljən/",
"audio": "mi/million/million__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, probably from Italian milione, from mille ‘thousand’ + the augmentative suffix -one."
}