billion

/ˈbɪljən/
adjective
  1. Totaling one billion in number.
    • A billion dollars is a huge amount of money.
    • They built a billion-dollar stadium for the Olympics.
    • The charity helped a billion people worldwide.
noun
  1. The number 1,000,000,000 (one thousand million).
    • The company earned over a billion dollars last year.
    • She saved one billion grains of rice for the science project.
    • There are more than seven billion people on Earth.
  2. A very large, indefinite number of things.
    • I've told you a billion times to clean your room.
    • He has a billion ideas for his new business.
    • There are billions of stars in the sky.
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