/mi.ljaʁ/
#1991 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
billion
Word origin
From million with the suffix -ard, modelled on milliart. Million itself derives from Italian millione, an augmentative of mille ('thousand'), from Latin mille.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- mille
- English cognates
- million, mile, millennium
Grammar
Gendermasculine
Pluralmilliards
Examples
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There are more than seven billion people in the world.
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This big company earns billions every year.
'euros, c' '.
A billion euros is a lot of money.
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There are billions of stars in the sky.
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It would take a billion years to do everything.
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