"millions" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmɪljənz/ Audio: en-us-millions.ogg
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  1. plural of million Tags: form-of, plural Form of: million
    Sense id: en-millions-en-noun-senvnSYz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1883, William Jackson Hooker, editor, Botanical miscellany […] , page 40:",
          "text": "“ […] The Hindoo bears a superstitious veneration for every thing possessed of life : the Briton venerates nothing, but sacrifices all, without distinction, to his appetite or his amusement. The former worships 333 millions of gods, male or female, some with two arms, some with two hundred; the latter, so far as can be gathered from his actions, worships neither god nor goddess. […] ”",
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          "ref": "1907, Arthur Henderson Smith, The Uplift of China, The Eddy Press, page 8:",
          "text": "The Great Plain extends from the Yang-tzŭ River to the mountains which divide Chih-li and Shan-hsi and Manchuria, and supports a population estimated at more than a hundred millions, reminding one in density of inhabitants of the province of Bengal.",
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