{
    "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."
}