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Million in Webster's 1913 dictionary

The 1913 record labels million as noun. Its source-bounded etymology and selected historical definition appear below.

WEBSTER 1913noun
Million

[F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a thousand. See Mile.]

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Cross-verified 1913 record
Headwordmillion
Part of speechnoun
Historical etymology[F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a thousand. See Mile.]
Selected historical definitionThe number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000,000. See the Note under Hundred.
Signed record IDwebster1913-million-noun-58e8b8dd0f6c
Source locatorCIDE.M, paragraph 6603; Gutenberg eBook 665
Edition-scoped answerNot earliest-attestation proofNot modern consensus
Independent historical textProject Gutenberg section 665Signed structural record sourceGNU GCIDE 0.54 archive
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In Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), "million" is labeled noun. Its etymology is recorded as: "[F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a thousand. See Mile.]" The selected historical definition says: "The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000,000. See the Note under Hundred."

Project Gutenberg Webster 1913 plus signed GNU GCIDE 0.54 Exact cross-verified historical record reviewed 2026-09-05

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