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dillion | gillion |

As a noun dillion

is an unspecified large number (of).

As a numeral gillion is

a thousand million, proposed as an alternative to the (now little used) British milliard and the (ambiguous, in the UK) US billion.

dillion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang, hyperbole) An unspecified large number (of).
  • * 1982 , Roald Dahl, The BFG
    • 'The human bean,' the Giant went on, 'is coming in dillions of different flavours.
  • * 2012 , Gretel Killeen, My Sister's a Yo-Yo
    • He'd been sitting in the car for a dillion years waiting for his mother to find her glasses.
  • * 2014 , Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land
    • You have like a dillion books here, probably nobody would have even looked at it.

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    gillion

    English

    Numeral

    (head)
  • (rare) A thousand million, proposed as an alternative to the (now little used) British milliard' and the (ambiguous, in the UK) US ' billion .
    • English cardinal numbers