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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)