zillion
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- noun
- /ˈzɪljən/
- Informal
- There are zillions of stars in the night sky, making it impossible to count them all.
- zillions of dollars
- zillions of people
- zillions of times
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- Or, you know, it's a zillion things you can pick AT.
- Zillions and zillions and zillions of them, each one with its own life in it.
- A good zillion times more than what my dreams were.
- And then you just told me you don't remember when Trump said, but it's a giant moment that's been replayed A zillion times.
- And usually when people use deep learning, they're using zillions of training data.
- And it's still you still get the zillion that's the technical term options.
- By the way, this was the right norm to win zillion dollars in the Netflix competition.
- Oh, no, no, no, no, I forgot to put on zillion gloves.
- What's the joke, the meme about, you know, get money, make it a zillion bro down, you know, sell it.
- Which big fan or you say, you know what, the next thing I do, I want to do for zillions and zillions of people.
- Zillion is one with a logarithm of a zillion zeros after it or something like that, right?
Examples
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Maybe I will join the ranks of zillions who have pre-ordered the new camera from Canon.
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I know you hear this like a zillion times a day, but I was like the biggest fan of The Office.
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And we are a zillion miles from that in my opinion.
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I got a zillion zillion times more.
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A good zillion times more than what my dreams were.
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'Cause there's only a zillion of them in every gas station in America.
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I've got a zillion of them.
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As a young wife, I started collecting her cookbooks and have tried a zillion of her recipes.
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They got, like, zillions of scientists.
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Zillions and zillions and zillions of them, each one with its own life in it.
Synonyms
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1.0
A very large number used to mean a lot without an exact count
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2.1
A very large amount of something, often many people or things
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1.0
A large number, usually more than twelve
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Many people or things counted together
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A very large number of things or people
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2.5
A very large, not exact number used to say there are many
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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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9.2
A very large, not exact number people use to mean many
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A very large, not exact number used to show exaggeration
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A joking phrase used to say a very large amount or level
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Very large in number with no exact amount and said as a joke
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A phrase that means many rather than exactly 101
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A very large not exact number people use to mean a huge amount
A made-up very large number that people use to mean a lot of things
A very large number used to mean a huge, not exact amount
A very large amount used to show that something is extreme
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Etymology
The word zillion is a playful, made-up number that copies the -illion ending from familiar words like million and billion. So when someone says 'I've told you a zillion times', they mean 'a very large number' or just 'a lot' for emphasis.