What does billion mean?
Definitions for billion
ˈbɪl yənbil·lion
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word billion.
Princeton's WordNet
billion, one million million, 1000000000000noun
the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen
million, billion, trillion, zillion, jillion, gazillionnoun
a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)
"there were millions of flies"
billion, one thousand million, 1000000000adjective
the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros
billionadjective
denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States
billionadjective
denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain
Wikipedia
Billion
Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 109 (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is its only current meaning in English. 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 1012 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the long scale. This number, which is one thousand times larger than the short scale billion, is now referred to in English as one trillion. However, this number is the historical meaning in English for the word "billion" (with the exception of the United States), a meaning which was still in official use in British English until some time after World War II.American English adopted the short scale definition from the French (it enjoyed usage in France at the time, alongside the long-scale definition). The United Kingdom used the long scale billion until 1974, when the government officially switched to the short scale, but since the 1950s the short scale had already been increasingly used in technical writing and journalism. Other countries use the word billion (or words cognate to it) to denote either the long scale or short scale billion. (For details, see Long and short scales § Current usage.) Milliard, another term for one thousand million, is extremely rare in English, but words similar to it are very common in other European languages. For example, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hebrew (Asia), Hungarian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish (although the expression mil millones — a thousand million — is far more common), Swedish, Tajik, Turkish, Ukrainian and Uzbek — use milliard, or a related word, for the short scale billion, and billion (or a related word) for the long scale billion. Thus for these languages billion is a thousand times larger than the modern English billion.
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billion
A billion is a number equivalent to one thousand million (1,000,000,000) in the US and many other countries, or one million million (1,000,000,000,000) in the UK before 1974. It's typically used in the context of finance, population and other quantities to denote a very large amount.
Webster Dictionary
Billionnoun
according to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Billion
bil′yun, n. a million or thousand thousand of millions (1,000,000,000,000); or, according to the French method of numeration, one thousand millions (1,000,000,000). [L. bi-, twice, and Million.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BILLION
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Billion is ranked #134712 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Billion surname appeared 125 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Billion.
81.6% or 102 total occurrences were White.
8% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
7.2% or 9 total occurrences were Black.
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British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'billion' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2140
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'billion' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3868
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'billion' in Nouns Frequency: #913
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of billion in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of billion in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of billion in a Sentence
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull:
China is Australia's most valuable tourism market. More than a million Chinese visited Australia last year (and) contributed A$8.3 billion to our economy.
I haven't even seen a truck nearby. Polls are still down lines are down, I really have no idea. And it's been slowly coming back around the metro area, but I feel like my area has been forgotten. She said she does n’t know what the future will bring. Right now, we're scared about Puerto Rico's future. This is really, really serious for us, we don't know what's going to happen with us in the future. We don't know if we're going to keep getting some aid some help – it's scary for us. Help from U.S. mainland power companies has been coming in waves for months. But Monica Viego-Rodriguez still hasn't seen a light come on anywhere in Monica Viego-Rodriguez neighborhood since the hurricanes hit last fall. Monica Viego-Rodriguez can only buy perishable foods for Monica Viego-Rodriguez family that they can eat the same day.There is nowhere to store food other than a cooler that she keeps filled with ice on her balcony. More than 470,000 homes were damaged or destroyed, causing an estimated $ 140 billion in damages. As Puerto Rico experiences the longest and most devastating blackout in American history, 1,000 utility trucks and 1,500 workers from 22 electric companies from all over the U.S. are arriving on the island this week to help the existing crews on the job restore power. As crews carve their way through the catastrophic damage, their progress is slow. But they met a major milestone this month when 1 million customers had their power restored, and utility crews say they won't stop until everyone is back on line. Help from U.S. mainland power companies has been coming in waves for months. But some Puerto Rico residents say they still haven't seen a light come on anywhere in their neighborhood since the hurricanes hit last fall. ( REUTERS) There is no set timeframe, we're just here for the long haul.
Manpreet Singh.Harmanpreet Singh:
Today we have made 1.3 billion Indians proud by finishing on the podium.
China should not have put new Tariffs on 75 BILLION DOLLARS of United States product( politically motivated !) .
As you said, It's as big as an economy. It's a country, with 3 billion people, they’re not monitoring it correctly. And at the very top, we have someone who is unfireable, unaccountable and really can do whatever he wants and is spectacularly unsuited to the task.
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- miljardAfrikaans
- مليار, تريليونArabic
- milyardAzerbaijani
- мільярдBelarusian
- милиардBulgarian
- বিলিয়নBengali
- miliardBreton
- bilió, miliard, mil milióCatalan, Valencian
- bilión, miliardaCzech
- milliardDanish
- Milliarde, BillionGerman
- τρισεκατομμύριο, δισεκατομμύριοGreek
- miliardo, duilionoEsperanto
- millardo, mil millones, billónSpanish
- miljardEstonian
- bilioi, miliar, mila milioiBasque
- تریلیون, بیلیون, میلیاردPersian
- biljoona, miljardiFinnish
- billion, milliard, milliards, millionsFrench
- מיליארדHebrew
- अरब, एक अरबHindi
- milliárdHungarian
- միլիարդArmenian
- milliardoInterlingua
- milyarIndonesian
- milljarðaIcelandic
- miliardoItalian
- 兆, 十億Japanese
- მილიარდიGeorgian
- миллиардKazakh
- រយកោដិKhmer
- 십억, 十億Korean
- миллиардKyrgyz
- ຕື້, ພັນລ້ານLao
- milijardasLithuanian
- miljardsLatvian
- милијардаMacedonian
- тэрбумMongolian
- miliar, ribu juta, seribu juta, bilionMalay
- biljunMaltese
- ပကောဋိBurmese
- biljoen, miljardDutch
- milliardNorwegian
- biyóónNavajo, Navaho
- miliard, bilionPolish
- bilião, trilhão, bilhãoPortuguese
- llunaQuechua
- milliard, milliardaRomansh
- miliardRomanian
- миллиард, биллион, триллионRussian
- милијарда, milijardaSerbo-Croatian
- miliarda, biliónSlovak
- milijardaSlovene
- miliardëAlbanian
- triljon, biljon, miljardSwedish
- bilioniSwahili
- миллиардTajik
- พันล้านThai
- milliardTurkmen
- milyarTurkish
- миллиардTatar
- мільярдUkrainian
- مِلْيُن, اربUrdu
- milliardUzbek
- tỉ, tỷVietnamese
- 十億Chinese
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