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[ bil-yuhn ] / ˈbɪl yən /
noun, plural bil·lions, (as after a numeral) bil·lion.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. adjectiveequal in number to a billion. Origin of billion1680–90; <French, equivalent to b(i)- bi-1 + -illion, as in million OTHER WORDS FROM billionbillionth, adjective, nounWords nearby billionbilling cycle, billing machine, Billings, billingsgate, Billings method, billion, billionaire, Billiton, billman, bill of adventure, bill of attainder Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for billionUsing standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand. Design Your Own Dinosaur: The Era of Custom DNA|Justin Jones|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST And as a bonus, they send home more than $20 billion in remittances each year. Why Mexicans Are Enraged by Obama’s Big Tuesday Meeting|Ruben Navarrette Jr.|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST The amount of vanished bitcoins was 650,000 BTC (or 24.7 billion yen). Japanese Bitcoin Heist ‘an Inside Job,’ Not Hackers Alone|Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky, Jake Adelstein|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST Why else would $4 billion have been spent on the midterm election? When Will We See a #Millennial Congress?|Linda Killian|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Among other things, the bill appropriates $1.1 trillion in funding—including over $550 billion for the Department of Defense. Merry Christmas, Defense Contractors!|Veronique de Rugy|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST Suppose I fixed up a storage-pack to give me a field with a few billion watts in it? Operation: Outer Space|William Fitzgerald Jenkins The trade of Germany and the United States has increased from 7.6 to 38 billion marks. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2|Various And the continued high interest rates last year cost the government about $5 billion more than anticipated. Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to 2006|Various A total of $2 billion in Federal grants will ultimately be required to finance these 955 projects. Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to 2006|Various We cut $255 billion in spending, including entitlements, in over 340 separate budget items. Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to 2006|Various
British Dictionary definitions for billion
noun plural -lions or -lionone 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 billionit seems like a billion years ago
- (as pronoun)we have a billion here
Derived forms of billionbillionth, adjective, nounWord Origin for billionC17: from French, from bi- 1 + -llion as in million Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to billionlots, tons, abundance, masses, scads, plenty, heaps, piles, zillions, gobs, loads, thousands, millions, many |