thousand million

numeral

Synonym of billion (“short scale: 10⁹, or 1,000 × 1,000²”).

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  1. UKSynonym of billion (“short scale: 10⁹, or 1,000 × 1,000²”).

    Remark also that it is only for facility of counting that we have reckoned our universe as a thousand million suns; […]

    1901, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature - Volume 64

    Synonyms: billion

Synonyms & antonyms

numeralSynonym of billion (“short scale: 10⁹, or 1,000 × 1,000²”).

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APA

thousand million. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thousand%20million

MLA

“thousand million.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thousand%20million. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thousand million,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thousand%20million.

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