[ˈbɪljən], (Numeral)

Definitions:
- the number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a million; 1,000,000,000 or 10⁹
(e.g: a world population of nearly 5 billion)


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Origin:
late 17th century: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix bi- ‘two’ for the initial letters