zillion

English

Etymology

See -illion.

Pronunciation

• enPR: zĭl'yən, IPA^(key): /ˈzɪljən/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɪljən

Noun

zillion (plural zillions)

1. (slang, hyperbolic) An unspecified large number (of); a gazillion.
   • 2008 December 6, “Brain tests show child wealth gap”, in BBC News:

     "We are certainly not blaming lower socioeconomic families for not talking to their kids - there are probably a zillion reasons why that happens."

Synonyms

• (unspecified large number): See also Thesaurus:zillion.

Derived terms

• zillionaire
• zillionth

Translations

unspecified large number

• Armenian: ծիծիլիոն (cicilion)
• Dutch: ton (nl) f, ziljoen (nl) n
• Esperanto: umiliono
• Finnish: tsiljoona
• French: trouzillion (fr) m
• Galician: millenta
• Hebrew: מָלַאנְתַּלָּפִים (he) pl (malantalafim)
• Hungarian: csillió
• Icelandic: skrilljón f
• Korean: 골백 (golbaek)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ørten, fantasillion m, zillion m

• Persian: شونصد (šunsad) (slang)
• Portuguese: milhentos (Angola, Brasil, Cabo Verde, Moçambique, Portugal), zilhão (pt) m (Brasil), trocentos (pt), zilião m (Portugal)
• Spanish: (Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Spain) chorrocientos, (Chile, Guatemala, Mexico) chorromil, (Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico) cuchucientos, (Latin America) cuchumil, (Colombia) ^{(please verify)} enemil, (River Plate) quichicientas, (Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay) sepetecientos, (Panama, Venezuela) sopotocientos, (Spain) tropecientos, chiquicientas (River Plate), chorroscientos (Mesoamerica)
• Turkish: zilyon, zibilyon

Further reading

• Indefinite and fictitious numbers on Wikipedia.Wikipedia