"billion" meaning in Français

See billion in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: \bi.ljɔ̃\ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-billion.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-billion.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Mathieu Kappler-billion.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-billion.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-billion.wav Forms: billions [plural]
  1. Un million de millions, ou mille milliards, selon l’échelle longue. 10¹², c’est-à-dire 1,000,000,000,000.
    Sense id: fr-billion-fr-noun-Nm-5iAum Categories (other): Exemples en français, Lexique en français des mathématiques Topics: mathematics
  2. Milliard. Cet usage, qui suit l’échelle courte, est aujourd’hui très rare. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: fr-billion-fr-noun-CUkwM5-N Categories (other): Lexique en français des mathématiques, Termes désuets en français Topics: mathematics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mille milliards, million de millions, téra- Derived forms: billionième, partie par billion Related terms: billiard, million, trillion Translations: Billion (Allemand), trillion (Anglais), 万亿 (wànyì) (Chinois), (jo) (Coréen), bilijun (Croate), billion (Danois), billón (Espagnol), bicuento (Espagnol), biliono (Espéranto), biljoona (Finnois), billón (Galicien), τρισεκατομμύριο [neuter] (Grec), bilione (Italien), (chō) (Japonais), tungoy (Kotava), biljoen (Néerlandais), bilion (Occitan), bilion (Polonais), bilhão (Portugais), биллион (billion) (Russe), більйон (bilʹïon) (Ukrainien)

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Français dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-07 from the frwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (51d164f and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.