English word billion comes from English bikini (A brief two-piece bathing suit worn by women.), English -illion
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| bikini | English (eng) | A brief two-piece bathing suit worn by women. |
| -illion | English (eng) | Added to various nonsense syllables to indicate an arbitrarily very large number.. Combined with Latin prefixes for names of integers in order to form names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000. Thus we have the names billion, trillion, etc. |
| billion | French (fra) | 1012; a long scale billion; a short scale trillion. |
| billion | English (eng) | (US, modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109; a milliard. (colloquial, in the plural, hyperbole) A very large number.. (dated, British & Australian, long scale) A million million: a 1 followed by twelve zeros; 1012. |