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Word: Billion
Speech Type: Numeral
Etymology:
late 17th century: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix bi- ‘two’ for the initial letters
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈbɪljən
Dialects: British English
Definition:
the number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a million; 1,000,000,000 or 10⁹
Short Definition:thousand million
Examples:- a world population of nearly 5 billion
- half a billion dollars
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