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billion
[ bil-yuhn ]
noun
- a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 9 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 12 zeros.
- a very large number:
I've told you so billions of times.
adjective
- equal in number to a billion.
billion
/ ˈbɪljən /
noun
- one thousand million: it is written as 1 000 000 000 or 10 9
- (formerly, in Britain) one million million: it is written as 1 000 000 000 000 or 10 12
- often plural any exceptionally large number
determiner
- preceded by a or a cardinal number
- amounting to a billion
it seems like a billion years ago
- ( as pronoun )
we have a billion here
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Derived Forms
- ˈbillionth, adjectivenoun
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Other Words From
- billionth adjective noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of billion1
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Example Sentences
Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.
And as a bonus, they send home more than $20 billion in remittances each year.
The amount of vanished bitcoins was 650,000 BTC (or 24.7 billion yen).
Why else would $4 billion have been spent on the midterm election?
Among other things, the bill appropriates $1.1 trillion in funding—including over $550 billion for the Department of Defense.
Expenditure for new manufacturing plant and equipment exceeded one billion dollars in one recent seven-year period.
He had never imagined wild flowers by the billion, nor such a harmonious variety of color.
Oh, it's worth a billion milrays to look upon a live person again!
Well, I'll just bet you a million billion dollars He can't make a trolley car go in two directions at the same time.
"Over three and a half billion eggs and small fish were distributed last year, if I remember rightly," was the reply.
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