billion
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈbɪljən/
- Informal
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un montón
- Give me a break and a billion dollars.
- billions of people
Billions and billions of dollars, billions and billions of users.
- Billions and billions of dollars, billions and billions of users.
- They have billions and billions of plays of their songs.
- Give me a break and a billion dollars.
- Maybe it's bacteria for billions and billions and billions of years.
- They go by entering, they make you enter a billion year contract for your soul.
- It's not torturing for a billion years, a trillion years.
- Even may take millions of billions, billions of eons, doesn't matter.
Examples
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Now think about billions of dollars, right?
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I mean that's costing literally billions and billions of pounds a year.
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This is the way it's been done for billions of years.
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Facebook is selling billions of dollars of stuff per month.
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She has to be getting like a billion views a month.
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These contracts cost countries around the world billions and billions of dollars.
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Certainly, it runs into the billions of dollars, and perhaps the trillions.
Academic text (1993) -
Billions and billions of dollars, billions and billions of users.
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Ford and GM are saying it's going to cost billions of dollars this year.
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I wish I had a billion dollars to travel the world.
Synonyms
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1.0
A very large number used to mean a lot without an exact count
158
1.4
Many people or things counted together
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3.2
A very large, not exact number used to show exaggeration
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4.4
A large number of things or people
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6.8
A very large number of things or people
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7.0
A very large unknown number used to say something is much bigger than it is
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8.1
A very large number that people use to show exaggeration
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5.6
A very large number that people use to show a lot
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9.2
A very large, not exact number people use to mean many
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2.1
A very large amount of something, often many people or things
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1.0
A phrase that means many rather than exactly 101
A made-up very large number that people use to mean a lot of things
A very large number with no exact amount, said as a joke
A very large not exact number people use to mean a huge amount
A very large number used to mean a huge, not exact amount
A joking phrase used to say a very large amount or level
An amount that is large but not exactly known
Compounds
- Specialized
A measure of how many billion math calculations a computer does each second
A rough annual grass grown for edible seeds, animal feed, and wildlife food
How Many
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the informal use of billion is to think of it as 'a very large number' people use when they exaggerate, because a billion is so huge it becomes an easy way to say 'lots' rather than an exact amount.