milliard
numUK /ˈmɪlɪɑːd/ · US /ˈmɪliɑɹd/
Etymology Borrowed from French milliard.
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Archaic 10⁹, a thousand (times a) million. (Now generally replaced by the short scale billion.)
- For the coming year France would contribute 80 milliard francs ($200 million) to the Algerian budget [...].1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 155:
- Derived terms
- milliardaire, milliardfold, milliardth
- Related terms
- Previous: million. Next: billion., 109 = 1, 000
- Coordinate terms
- thousand, million, thousand million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion