MILLIARD

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A billion

Example:

in England they call one thousand million a milliard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("milliard" is a kind of...):

1000000000; billion; one thousand million (the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

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