Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal An indefinitely large number: "The crowd cheered wildly . . . as gazillions of balloons poured down from the rafters” ( Tom Shales).
Wiktionary
- n. slang, hyperbolic An unspecified large number (of).
WordNet 3.0
- n. a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)
Etymologies
- See + -illion (Wiktionary)
- On the model of million, billion, etc. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Then the Irish handsome brothers, who, it turns out, speak a gazillion different languages Why?”
“I called a gazillion hotels of varying pedigrees but everyone was fully booked because of the Ad Congress.”
“To be able to go through the day without being called a gazillion names?”
“Can't remember though I've only seen it a "gazillion" times, weather she's wearing one in the movie ...”
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“I realize that there are a "gazillion" agents in NY, but there are still those that fall into a select group that have high sales and would be considered a "dream agent.”
“This fairly quick task ... if the code is neatly packaged in a solution and is not littered with "gazillion" unresolved references and syntax errors ... gives you an immediate sense of comfort or reason to submit your leave form as a matter of urgency:”
“Gotta love Obama for a gazillion reasons; this is just one more!!”
“First six months in office, spent a gazillion dollars bailing out bankrupt companys and killed flies ....... yep!”
“And I'm going to save everybody a gazillion dollars by inventing something 10 years from now I haven't thought of yet.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gazillion’.
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sniglets
sniglets and neologisms | protologisms
random neologisms, compound words plus more
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Fruits of Linguistic Invention
bananosecond, fruitylicious, appled, kiwiclock, boomorange, damsonic, pearforate, graspberry, squince, datelier, caroberate, plumpire and 143 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
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Really, Really Large Numbers
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List Awesome
All words of steel organs
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hedges's Words
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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How Much?
dearth, paucity, capacious, scads, oodles, googol, rife, googolplex, caboodle, myriad, multitudinous, whole hog and 4 more...
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A Bazillion Imaginary Numbers
If I've told you once, I've told you a jillion times: Stop exaggerating!
bazillion, gazillion, umpteen, zillion, bajillion, skillion, kajillion, godzillion, umptillion, scads, gangs, buhmillion and 32 more...
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Scrivler
Words about language, reading, pattern, thought
paradox, affect, portmanteau, tangential, infodump, pedantic, gazillion, eccentric, bafflegab, clerihew, poetaster, anacoluthon and 1 more...
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My firsts
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Nicholas's Words
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favorite words
obvious
litany, sinuous, deleterious, zeitgeist, parliamentarian, gazillion, orwellian, kafkaesque, dickensian, sumpin
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Informal
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