Dictionaries › English

billion

Pronunciation: /ˈbɪljən/

The English word “billion” has 3 meanings listed here.

numeral

  1. a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000²): 1 followed by nine zeros, 10⁹.
  2. A million million (logic: 1,000,000²): a 1 followed by twelve zeros (10¹²); a thousand milliard.
  3. An unspecified very large number.

Etymology

From French billion, equivalent to bi- (“two”) + -illion.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “billion” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.