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English
Etymology
See + -illion
Pronunciation
Noun
zillion (plural zillions)
- (slang, hyperbolic) An unspecified large number (of); a gazillion.
2008 December 6, “Brain tests show child wealth gap”, in BBC News:"We are certainly not blaming lower socioeconomic families for not talking to their kids - there are probably a zillion reasons why that happens."
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Translations
unspecified large number
- Armenian: ծիծիլիոն (cicilion)
- Dutch: ton (nl) f, ziljoen (nl) n
- Esperanto: umiliono
- Finnish: tsiljoona
- French: trouzillion (fr) m
- Galician: millenta
- Hebrew: מָלַאנְתַּלָּפִים (he) pl (malantalafim)
- Hungarian: csillió
- Icelandic: skrilljón f
- Korean: 골백 (golbaek)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ørten, fantasillion m, zillion m
- Persian: شونصد (šunsad) (slang)
- Portuguese: milhentos (Angola, Brasil, Cabo Verde, Moçambique, Portugal), zilhão (pt) m (Brasil), trocentos (pt), zilião m (Portugal)
- Spanish: (Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Spain) chorrocientos, (Chile, Guatemala, Mexico) chorromil, (Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico) cuchucientos, (Dominican Republic) cuchumil, (Colombia) enemil, (Argentina) quichicientos (es), (Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay) sepetecientos, (Panama, Venezuela) sopotocientos, (Spain) tropecientos
- Turkish: zilyon, zibilyon
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Further reading
Indefinite and fictitious numbers on Wikipedia.Wikipedia