Meanings
numeralmilliard (plural milliards)
plural milliards
- archaic10⁹, a thousand (times a) million. (Now generally replaced by the short scale billion.)First known use 18th c.
For the coming year France would contribute 80 milliard francs ($200 million) to the Algerian budget [...].
1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 155Synonyms: billion[short scale]]>, thousand million
Synonyms & antonyms
numeral10⁹, a thousand (times a) million. (Now generally replaced by the short scale billion.)
Similar
billion[short scale]]>thousand million
Also see
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*sm̥-
- Proto-Indo-European*smih₂
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰes-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰéslom
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰéslih₂
- Proto-Indo-European*smih₂ǵʰéslih₂
- Proto-Italic*smīɣeslī
- Latinmīlle
- Italianmille
- Italianmilione
- Old Frenchmillion
- Middle Frenchmillion
- Frenchmillion
- Proto-Indo-European*kret-der.?
- Proto-Germanic*harduz
- Middle French[Term?]
- Frenchmilliard
- Englishmilliard
Borrowed from French milliard.
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Spanish millardo
- millardo10^9
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APA
milliard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milliard
MLA
“milliard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milliard. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “milliard,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/milliard.
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