"thanks a million" meaning in English

See thanks a million in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

Etymology: Shortening of "thank you a million times" Head templates: {{head|en|interjection}} thanks a million
  1. (informal) thank you, intensified. Tags: informal Related terms: thanks a lot, you're welcome a million Translations (thanks a great many times): mila esker (Basque), 万分感激 (Chinese Mandarin), tusind tak (Danish), duizendmaal dank (Dutch), túsund takk! (Faroese), paljon kiitoksia (Finnish), kiitos tuhannesti (Finnish), merci mille fois (French), mille mercis (French), tausend Dank (German), þúsund þakkir (Icelandic), grazie mille (Italian), tusen takk (Norwegian), stokrotne dzięki (Polish), mii de mulțumiri (Romanian), un millón de gracias (Spanish), tusen tack (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-thanks_a_million-en-intj-nwv5tywU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for thanks a million meaning in English (3.0kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortening of \"thank you a million times\"",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "interjection"
      },
      "expansion": "thanks a million",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 186",
          "text": "Smith taking leave gently on the grey porch. With a thanks a million. One is enough stranger. And stepping down three steps to the hard path underneath the three great trees at the fork of this road. Turning to look back. The shadow standing in the light of the hall, gun at port arms.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "thank you, intensified."
      ],
      "id": "en-thanks_a_million-en-intj-nwv5tywU",
      "links": [
        [
          "thank you",
          "thank you"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) thank you, intensified."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "thanks a lot"
        },
        {
          "word": "you're welcome a million"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "eu",
          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "mila esker"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "万分感激"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "tusind tak"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "duizendmaal dank"
        },
        {
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "túsund takk!"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "paljon kiitoksia"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "kiitos tuhannesti"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "merci mille fois"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "mille mercis"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "tausend Dank"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "note": "χίλια ευχαριστώ (chília efcharistó, literally “a thousand thanks”)",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "þúsund þakkir"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "grazie mille"
        },
        {
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "tusen takk"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "stokrotne dzięki"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "mii de mulțumiri"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "un millón de gracias"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "thanks a great many times",
          "word": "tusen tack"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thanks a million"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Shortening of \"thank you a million times\"",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "interjection"
      },
      "expansion": "thanks a million",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "thanks a lot"
    },
    {
      "word": "you're welcome a million"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English interjections",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 186",
          "text": "Smith taking leave gently on the grey porch. With a thanks a million. One is enough stranger. And stepping down three steps to the hard path underneath the three great trees at the fork of this road. Turning to look back. The shadow standing in the light of the hall, gun at port arms.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "thank you, intensified."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thank you",
          "thank you"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) thank you, intensified."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "mila esker"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "万分感激"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "tusind tak"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "duizendmaal dank"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "túsund takk!"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "paljon kiitoksia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "kiitos tuhannesti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "merci mille fois"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "mille mercis"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "tausend Dank"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "note": "χίλια ευχαριστώ (chília efcharistó, literally “a thousand thanks”)",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "þúsund þakkir"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "grazie mille"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "tusen takk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "stokrotne dzięki"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "mii de mulțumiri"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "un millón de gracias"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "thanks a great many times",
      "word": "tusen tack"
    }
  ],
  "word": "thanks a million"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.