billion
gb/bˈɪljən/ us/bˈɪljən/
A2
อังกฤษ
~ 2600
milliárd, ezer, rengeteg, ezerszer
คำนาม
A2
1
milliárd
A2
รูปแบบการใช้:
[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.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
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.
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Learners sometimes confuse 'billion' with 'million', especially in pronunciation or when translating from languages that use different naming systems for large numbers.
ความหมาย
One thousand million (1,000,000,000)
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
billion dollars
|billion people
|cost a billion
|worth billions
|lose billions
คำพ้องความหมาย
one thousand million (Alternative way of saying the same number; more common in some countries like the UK.)
คำตรงข้าม
million (A much smaller number, 1,000 times less than a billion.)
หัวข้อ
mathematics
|business
|science
|core_vocabulary
คำจำกัดความ
The number 1,000,000,000.
The number represented by 1 followed by nine zeros (1,000,000,000).
คำนาม
B1
INFORMAL
2
รูปแบบการใช้:
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.
ตัวอย่างสำหรับผู้เรียน
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.
ข้อผิดพลาดที่พบบ่อย:
Some learners may take the number literally instead of understanding it as exaggeration in informal speech.
ความหมาย
Very large but unspecified number
คำที่ใช้ร่วมกัน
a billion times
|billions of stars
|billions of reasons
คำพ้องความหมาย
zillions (More playful and exaggerated; always informal.)
คำตรงข้าม
few (Describes a small number, opposite of a large quantity.)
หัวข้อ
daily life
|core_vocabulary
คำจำกัดความ
A very large number, not exact.
An informal way to describe an extremely large quantity, not meant to be taken literally.
ไวยากรณ์
รูปคำในพจนานุกรม
billion
IPA
GB/bˈɪljən/
US/bˈɪljən/
พยางค์และการเน้นเสียง
bil - lion (2 พยางค์)
Stress on 1st syllable (bil)
รูปคำ
Noun
- Base: billion
- Plural: billion, billions
กลุ่มคำที่เกี่ยวข้อง
Forms
billions
noun
Core family
billionaire
noun
billionth
adjective
วลีและสำนวน
a billion times
1/ə bˈɪljən tˈaɪmz/
fixed phrase
informal
Exaggeratedly many repetitions
Said when something happens or is repeated many, many times.
ตัวอย่าง
- 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.
ตัวอย่าง
- 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.
ตัวอย่าง
- The stadium cost a billion dollars to build.
- That tech deal could cost a billion euros.