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- [zil-yuh n]
- /ˈzɪl yən/
- /ˈzɪl.jən/
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- [zil-yuh n]
- /ˈzɪl yən/
Definitions of zillion word
- noun plural zillion an extremely large, indeterminate number. 1
- adjective zillion of, relating to, or amounting to a zillion. 1
- noun zillion An extremely large number of people or things. 1
- noun zillion incalculably high number 1
- adjective zillion incalculably high number: of sth 1
- number zillion If you talk about a zillion people or things, you are emphasizing that there is an extremely large number of them. 0
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Origin of zillion
First appearance:
before 1930 One of the 10% newest English words
First recorded in 1930-35; jocular alteration of million, billion, etc.
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Parts of speech for Zillion
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verb
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zillion popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 63% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
Synonyms for zillion
noun zillion
adjective zillion
- innumerable — very numerous.
- endless — Having or seeming to have no end or limit.
- myriad — a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things.
- uncounted — not counted.
- untold — not told; not related; not revealed: untold thoughts.
Antonyms for zillion
noun zillion
- part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
- letter — a person who lets, especially one who rents out property.
- one — being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather than two or more; a single: one woman; one nation; one piece of cake.
- little — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
adjective zillion
- few — not many but more than one: Few artists live luxuriously.
- limited — confined within limits; restricted or circumscribed: a limited space; limited resources.
- calculable — Calculable amounts or consequences can be calculated.
- countable — capable of being counted
- counted — Simple past tense and past participle of count.
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