jillion
/ˈdʒɪljən
/cardinal number informal, chiefly North American
An extremely large number: they ran jillions of ads...
- Why is he telling us that his jillions of readers have a question?
- Here on the Front Range, we get jillions of the little guys every spring.
- When you compare it to previous wars, the Second World War, the Vietnam War, a jillion other wars, civilian casualties were very low.
Origin
1940s: fanciful formation on the pattern of billion and million.
Rhymes
- Montespan, Marquise de
- Montesquieu, Charles
- Montessori
- Montessorian
- Montessorianism
- Montessori, Maria
- Monteverdian
- Monteverdi, Claudio
- Montevideo
- Montez, Lola
- Montezuma II
- Montezuma quail
- Montezuma's revenge
- Montfort, Simon de
- Montgolfier
- Montgomery
- Montgomery, Bernard Law
- Montgomery County
- Montgomery gland
- montgomeryite
- Montgomery, L. M.
- Montgomery's gland
- Montgomeryshire
- Montgomery's tubercle
- month