thousand million

English

Numeral

thousand million

  1. (chiefly Britain) Synonym of billion (sense 1)
    • 1901, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature - Volume 64:
      Remark also that it is only for facility of counting that we have reckoned our universe as a thousand million suns; […]
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