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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[F., fr.

mille

thousand.]

A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton.

millier ‎(plural milliers)

From mille ‎(“one thousand”).

millier m ‎(plural milliers)

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.

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