Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 109.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thousand millions: as, a milliard of francs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thousand millions; -- usually called
billion in the United States. Seebillion .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cardinal, UK, rare 109, a
thousand millions .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a billion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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One point two billion pounds. (that's a uk billion - one million million, not a us billion correctly called a milliard).
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FWIW, the word 'milliard' means billion in French.
MetaHaiku Heather McDougal 2009
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The synonyms architectural and western are almost always used instead of architectonic and occidental. other examples being petroleum (excepting technical use and OPEC) and milliard.
Informatics 2009
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The synonyms architectural and western are almost always used instead of architectonic and occidental. other examples being petroleum (excepting technical use and OPEC) and milliard.
Informatics 2009
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The synonyms architectural and western are almost always used instead of architectonic and occidental. other examples being petroleum (excepting technical use and OPEC) and milliard.
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And they DON'T go bust when they lose one or two milliard pounds - they will be rescued by taxpayers.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Now, Paris contains one twenty-fifth of the total population of France, and Parisian guano being the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on the part of Paris at twenty-five millions in the half milliard which France annually rejects.
Les Miserables 2008
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Ils ont au moins Un milliard d'annees de difference!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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A cela, il ajoute la fin de l'entente sur les services de garde après la première année, ce qui privera le Québec d'un autre milliard de dollars, déplore-t-il, d'où les 4,25 milliards $.
Archive 2006-01-01 Ed Hollett 2006
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Contrer facebook et son milliard de message par jour
Facebook Finally Catches Up To MySpace In The U.S. Erick Schonfeld 2005
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