Translation
billion (a thousand million)
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Word origin
Borrowed from French milliard, built on million with the ending -ard. Million itself comes from Italian milione, an augmentative of mille, from Latin mille ('thousand'). German counts on the long scale, so eine Milliarde is an English billion and a German Billion is an English trillion.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- milliard
- English cognates
- milliard, million
Grammar
Examples
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Over eight billion people live on Earth.
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The company is worth a billion euros.
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A billion is a thousand million.
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