mil·liard (m l y rd, -yärd , ml -ärd)n. Chiefly British The cardinal number equal to 109. [French, from Old French milliart, from milion, million; see million.] |
milliard [ˈmɪlɪˌɑːd ˈmɪljɑːd]
n
(Mathematics) Brit (no longer in technical use) a thousand million US and Canadian equivalent billion
[from French]
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| Noun | 1. | milliard - a billion; "in England they call one thousand million a milliard" Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom 1000000000, one thousand million, billion - the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros |
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milliard
n (Brit) → Milliarde f
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