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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Milliard \Mil'liard"\ (F. m[-e]l'y[.a]r"; E. m[i^]l"l[i^]*[aum]rd), noun [F., from mille, mil, thousand, L. mille.] A thousand millions; -- usually called {billion} in the United States. See {Billion}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Billion \Bil"lion\, noun [F. billion, arbitrarily formed fr. L. bis twice, in imitation of million a million. See {Million}.] 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}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
billion
adjective
1: denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States [syn: {a billion}]
2: denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain [syn: {a billion}]
noun
1: 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 [syn: {one million million}, {1000000000000}]
2: the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros [syn: {one thousand million}, {1000000000}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "billion": a billion, a crore, a lakh, a million, a myriad, a nonillion, a quadrillion, a thousand, a zillion, astronomical number, googol, googolplex, infinitude, infinity, jillion, large number, milliard, trillion, zillion
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