Translation
billion (a thousand million)
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Word origin
Borrowed from French milliard, which was built on million, itself from Italian milione, an augmentative of mille ('thousand'). Italian counts on the long scale, so un miliardo is an English billion and un bilione is a million million.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- milliard
- English cognates
- milliard, million
Grammar
Examples
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There are more than eight billion people in the world.
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The bank lost a billion euros.
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The government will spend two billion euros on the roads.
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