Search Result for "billion":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1. the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen;
[syn: billion, one million million, 1000000000000]
2. a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole);
- Example: "there were millions of flies"
[syn: million, billion, trillion, zillion, jillion, gazillion]
3. the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros;
[syn: billion, one thousand million, 1000000000]
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States;
2. denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Milliard \Mil`liard"\ (F. m[-e]l`y[.a]r"; E. m[i^]l"l[i^]*[aum]rd), n. [F., from mille, mil, thousand, L. mille.] A thousand millions; -- usually called billion in the United States. See Billion. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Billion \Bil"lion\, n. [F. billion, arbitrarily formed fr. L. bis twice, in imitation of million a million. See Million.] According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "billion": a billion, a crore, a lakh, a million, a myriad, a nonillion, a quadrillion, a thousand, a zillion, astronomical number, googol, googolplex, infinitude, infinity, jillion, large number, milliard, trillion, zillion
