Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Million

Million (mil"yun) , noun

[French, from Late Latin millio, from Latin 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. — Shakespeare