milliard

[mil-yerd, -yahrd]

noun

British.

1. one thousand millions; equivalent to U.S. billion.

milliard

/ ˈmɪljɑːd, ˈmɪlɪˌɑːd /

noun

1. US and Canadian equivalent: billion. (no longer in technical use) a thousand million

Word History and Origins

Origin of milliard¹

From French, dating back to 1785–95; milli-, -ard

Word History and Origins

Origin of milliard¹

C19: from French

Example Sentences

Bar = bar of gold used to be c£1m Yard = short for "milliard".

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It would add at one stroke of the pen at least three milliards to the twelve milliards of the public debt.

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We were deprived of half a milliard poods of coal imported from abroad.

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But the day is coming, must come, when not only China's four hundred millions, but the milliard of the whole Tartar races shall, without exception, adopt the European civilization, and all the advantages of it.

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At this Krishna smiled and plunged into meditation, and immediately innumerable troops of Brahmas came there, some with ten heads, some with twenty, hundred, thousand, million, even a milliard, beyond the power of counting.

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