Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British The cardinal number equal to 109.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A thousand millions: as, a milliard of francs. This word became familiar in English through the payment by France to Germany, after the close of the war of 1870-1, of an indemnity of live milliards of francs (about $1,000,000,000).
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A thousand millions; -- usually called
billion in the United States. See billion.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a billion
Etymologies
- From French milliard. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French milliart, from milion, million; see million. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“One point two billion pounds. (that's a uk billion - one million million, not a us billion correctly called a milliard).”
“FWIW, the word 'milliard' means billion in French.”
“The synonyms architectural and western are almost always used instead of architectonic and occidental. other examples being petroleum (excepting technical use and OPEC) and milliard.”
“And they DON'T go bust when they lose one or two milliard pounds - they will be rescued by taxpayers.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Now, Paris contains one twenty-fifth of the total population of France, and Parisian guano being the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on the part of Paris at twenty-five millions in the half milliard which France annually rejects.”
“Ils ont au moins Un milliard d'annees de difference!!”
“A cela, il ajoute la fin de l'entente sur les services de garde après la première année, ce qui privera le Québec d'un autre milliard de dollars, déplore-t-il, d'où les 4,25 milliards $.”
“Contrer facebook et son milliard de message par jour”
“TechCrunch en français » Rumeurs: Yahoo racheterait Bebo pour 1 milliard de dollars”
“TechCrunch en français » Rumeur: Bebo sur le point d'etre rachetî par Google ou MySpace pour 1 milliard ou plus?”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘milliard’.
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Really, Really Large Numbers
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Evin290's Words
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