billion
gb/bˈɪljən/ us/bˈɪljən/
A2
إنجليزي
~ 2600
milliárd, ezer, rengeteg, ezerszer
اسم
A2
1
milliárd
A2
نمط الاستخدام:
[number] billion [things]
The company is worth over two billion dollars.
A cég több mint kétmilliárd dollárt ér.
There are more than seven billion people on Earth.
Több mint hétmilliárd ember él a Földön.
The project will cost about half a billion euros.
She inherited a billion pounds from her uncle.
By 2050, the population could reach ten billion.
أمثلة للمتعلمين
China has more than one billion people.
Kínának több mint egymilliárd lakosa van.
The movie made two billion dollars.
A film kétmilliárd dolláros bevételt hozott.
He wants to give one billion to help poor people.
The company lost three billion last year.
غلطة شائعة:
Learners sometimes confuse 'billion' with 'million', especially in pronunciation or when translating from languages that use different naming systems for large numbers.
المعنى
One thousand million (1,000,000,000)
تراكيب شائعة
billion dollars
|billion people
|cost a billion
|worth billions
|lose billions
مرادفات
one thousand million (Alternative way of saying the same number; more common in some countries like the UK.)
أضداد
million (A much smaller number, 1,000 times less than a billion.)
مواضيع
mathematics
|business
|science
|core_vocabulary
التعريف
The number 1,000,000,000.
The number represented by 1 followed by nine zeros (1,000,000,000).
اسم
B1
INFORMAL
2
نمط الاستخدام:
a billion [things]
I've told you a billion times to clean your room.
Már ezerszer elmondtam neked, hogy takarítsd ki a szobádat.
There are billions of stars in our galaxy.
A galaxisunkban rengeteg csillag van.
She has a billion ideas for new projects.
We have a billion things to do before the trip.
أمثلة للمتعلمين
I have told you a billion times.
Már ezerszer elmondtam neked.
There are billions of fish in the sea.
Rengeteg hal él a tengerben.
He has a billion games at home.
غلطة شائعة:
Some learners may take the number literally instead of understanding it as exaggeration in informal speech.
المعنى
Very large but unspecified number
تراكيب شائعة
a billion times
|billions of stars
|billions of reasons
مرادفات
zillions (More playful and exaggerated; always informal.)
أضداد
few (Describes a small number, opposite of a large quantity.)
مواضيع
daily life
|core_vocabulary
التعريف
A very large number, not exact.
An informal way to describe an extremely large quantity, not meant to be taken literally.
القواعد
الصيغة المعجمية
billion
IPA
GB/bˈɪljən/
US/bˈɪljən/
المقاطع والنبر
bil - lion (٢ مقاطع)
Stress on 1st syllable (bil)
تصريفات الكلمة
Noun
- Base: billion
- Plural: billion, billions
عيلة الكلمة
Forms
billions
noun
Core family
billionaire
noun
billionth
adjective
تعبيرات
a billion times
1/ə bˈɪljən tˈaɪmz/
fixed phrase
informal
Exaggeratedly many repetitions
Said when something happens or is repeated many, many times.
أمثلة
- I’ve explained this a billion times already.
- She’s watched that movie a billion times.
billions of
1/bˈɪljənz əv/
fixed phrase
A very large quantity of something
A very large number or amount of something.
أمثلة
- Billions of stars can be seen in the night sky.
- The app has been downloaded billions of times.
cost a billion
1/kˈɔst ə bˈɪljən/
fixed phrase
Be priced at one billion currency units
To have a price of 1,000,000,000 in money.
أمثلة
- The stadium cost a billion dollars to build.
- That tech deal could cost a billion euros.