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(British) a billion
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milliard
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Milliard \Mil`liard"\ (F. m[-e]l`y[.a]r"; E. m[i^]l"l[i^]*[aum]rd), n. [F., from mille, mil, thousand, L. mille.] A thousand millions; -- usually called billion in the United States. See Billion .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
num. (context cardinal now rare English) 10 9 , a thousand times a million. (Now generally replaced by (term: billion).) (from 18th c.)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a billion; "in England they call one thousand million a milliard"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one thousand million," 1793, from French milliard (16c.), from million (see million ) with change of suffix. A word made necessary by the double meaning of billion .
Usage examples of milliard.
Nelson Milliard, the top boss, said something about a later discussion concerning personnel for the mission?
Saba, and Milliard had called a break for dinner, saying that they could all get acquainted over a meal.
I guess Milliard gave the Russians everything they asked for, equipment-wise.
Robert paid for the car with the special black credit card General Milliard had given him.
All the instruments had been removed, just as General Milliard had told him.
General Milliard at National Security Agency Headquarters at Fort Meade at 0600 this morning.
Robert took a step toward her, and at that moment, General Milliard and Colonel Frank Johnson stepped out of the helicopter.
Somebody was changing a picture, a Philip Steer painted in a milliard divisionistic dots, two girls running on a waterside pier.
Tension in Kelgarries, tension in Ashe, tension in Milliard, the big boss, muttering over there into a cell-phone.
And then, after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theo-criticism and geography and history and economics, why, you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to learn to beat your adversary at fencing.
Ligny, the other day, where we smashed the Prussians into ten hundred thousand milliards of atoms, a bit of a shell cut me across the leg and opened an artery.
French character, the people who paid to the conquering nation in fifteen months nine milliards of francs will restore the broken ornaments of the empress city.
It was just that, being a Frenchman of a more practical turn of mind than he Professor, he saw at once that there were some milliards of francs involved in this laboratory toy.
She has given fifteen milliards of francs to Russia so that she may at last draw the sword in defence of Russo-Serbian and British commercial interests.
Thus within a few minutes he would pass from a question of milliards to a question of sous, and from the management of a empire to that of a stable.