From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
billion
adj 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
n 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); "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}]
From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]:
Billion /biliːoːn/
am: trillion; billion
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