Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - billion
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(billions) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: The plural form is 'billion' after a number, or after a word or expression referring to a number, such as ‘several’ or ‘a few’. 1. A billion is a thousand million. ...3 billion dollars... This year, almost a billion birds will be processed in the region. NUM 2. If you talk about billions of people or things, you mean that there is a very large number of them but you do not know or do not want to say exactly how many. Biological systems have been doing this for billions of years... He urged US executives to invest billions of dollars in his country. QUANT-PLURAL: QUANT of pl-n • You can also use billions as a pronoun. He thought that it must be worth billions. PRON ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: French, from bi- + -illion (as in million) Date: 1834 1. — see number table 2. a very large number • ~ adjective • ~th adjective or noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. --n. (pl. same or (in sense 3) billions) (in sing. prec. by a or one) 1 a thousand million (1,000,000,000 or 10(9)). 2 (now less often, esp. Brit.) a million million (1,000,000,000,000 or 10(12)). 3 (in pl.) colloq. a very large number (billions of years). --adj. that amount to a billion. Derivatives billionth adj. & n. Etymology: F (as BI-, MILLION) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1690, from Fr. billion (originally byllion in Chuquet's unpublished "Le Triparty en la Science des Nombres", 1484; copied by De la Roche, 1520), from bi- "two" + (m)illion. A million million in Britain (numeration by groups of sixes), a thousand million France (numeration by groups of threes) and in America, "due in part to French influence after the Revolutionary War." British usage is truer to the etymology, but U.S. sense is increasingly common there in technical writing. Billionaire first recorded 1860 in Amer.Eng. The first in the world was likely John D. Rockefeller. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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