millionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”, from mille (“thousand”, from Latin mille) +‎ -one). Compare -illion.

発音

• enPR: mĭl′yən, IPA: /ˈmɪljən/, [ˈmɪl(i)jən]
• ハイフネーション: mil‧lion
• 韻: -ɪljən

数詞

million (plural millions)

1. (long scale and short scale) The cardinal number 1 000 000: 10; a thousand thousand.

   Alternative forms: mn, mn., mln, mln., M (symbols)

   Near-synonyms: mega-, M-

   • 2021 February 10, Eoin McSweeney, “As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos”, in CNN‎:

     Doctors in Nigeria have criticized a mass national identification registration policy, involving tens of millions of citizens, as Covid-19 cases and deaths rise in the country. […] So far, only 56 million NINs have been collected by mobile operators, according to a federal government press release.

2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.

   Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion

   I told you a million times before.

   I can think of millions of reasons not to go.

   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:

     Let him bring millions infinite of men,
     Unpeopling weſterne Affrica and Greece:
     Yet we aſſure vs of the victorie.

   • 1981, Chaka Khan, “Fate”, in What Cha' Gonna Do for Me:

     Time stood still and we were lost on words to say / And though the people stared, they seemed a million miles away / Oh, we knew it was love we were feeling / We were destined to give it a whole new meaning

   • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 38:

     Up and round and through caves and out over precipices at a million miles an hour. The girls are behind me and I'm holding Matt, what a buzz.

使用する際の注意点

• Until the early 20th century, million behaved much like an ordinary quantificational noun (such as pair or handful). That is, it inflected in the plural when modified by a numeral greater than 1, and was separated from the noun it quantified with of, as in: five millions of pounds (rather than the modern equivalent, five million pounds).

同意語

等位語

派生語

派生した語

• → Hawaiian: miliona
• → Maori: miriona
• → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
• → Tamil: மில்லியன் (milliyaṉ)
• → Welsh: miliwn
• → Yoruba: mílíọ̀nù

参考

• (short scale) Previous: thousand. Next: billion
• (long scale) Previous: thousand. Next: milliard
• (Ordinal) millionth
• ISO prefix: mega-
• mega