million dollars
Seven-figure bank balance
A million dollars is the quintessential large sum in American imagination—enough to change someone's life but still within the realm of possibility.
It serves as shorthand for wealth or high stakes: He looked like a million dollars, the million-dollar question.
Adjusted for inflation, a million dollars no longer represents extreme wealth as it once did, but the phrase retains its aspirational ring.
What would you do with a million dollars?
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- wealthAbundance of valuable resources
- jackpotAccumulated gambling prize
- lotteryRandomized prize distribution
- game showPrize-based TV competition
windfall · riches · cold hard cash · cash · prize · big break · payday · mogul · tycoon · high roller · briefcase · ransom · heist · mansion · yacht · inheritance · deal · payout
- Hyperbolea zillion, bazillion, gazillion, bajillion, zillion
- Number Phrasesone and only, two cents, three strikes, four corners, five senses
- moneyeuro, coin, cash, pound, bill
- prizesgrand prize, first prize, top prize, jackpot, cash prize
- game showsbuzzer, buzzers, contestant, contestants, jackpot
million dollarspocket change
Minor cash on hand
pennies · chump change · peanuts · chicken feed · small change
million dollarspoverty
Severe lack of resources
destitution · penniless · flat broke · dead broke · broke
million, millions, millionaire, millionaires, millionth, millionths, millionfold, dollar, dollars