thousand million

Anglais

Étymologie

Composé de thousand (mille) et de million.

Locution nominale

thousand million \'θaʊ.zənd ˈbɪl.jən\

1. (Royaume-Uni) Milliard , mille millions.
   • Remark also that it is only for facility of counting that we have reckoned our universe as a thousand million suns; [...] — (Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature, chapitre 64, 1901)

Synonymes

• billion
• yard (finance)
• milliard (royaume-uni) (vieilli)