billion

Speech parts

1. billion - Noun

2. billion - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

trillion million zillion bazillion jillion gazillion 1000000000000 one million million 1000000000 one thousand million aeon grand infinity lac octave

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Antonyms

one few lack pennyworth halfpenny little bit

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Hypernyms

large integer large indefinite amount large indefinite quantity

Hyponyms

milliard

Phrases with the word

billion years billion dollar question billion australian dollars a multi-billion dollar barren billion another billion

Examples

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. J. Paul Getty

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. Warren Buffett

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building. Steve Jobs

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream! Abdul Kalam

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. Richard Dawkins

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. John Kenneth Galbraith

Close letter words and terms

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