millier

Etymology

From French mille (“thousand”).

Noun

millier (plural milliers)

1. A weight of the metric system, equal to one million grams; a metric ton.

Etymology

From mille (“one thousand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.lje/

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Noun

millier m (plural milliers)

1. thousand; a number of about a thousand.

   Il y avait un millier de personnes dans la foule. -- There were about a thousand people in the crowd.

Further reading

• “millier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Noun

millier m (oblique plural milliers, nominative singular milliers, nominative plural millier)

1. thousand; a number of about thousand.