Word: billion
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: bil
lion
Definition: a thousand million ( logic: 1, 000× 1,000^2): 1 followed by nine zeros, 109; a milliard
Morphemes:
Affix: bi-
Language: en
Meaning: two
Etymology Compounds: Affix: bis
Language: la
Decoded: bis
Meaning: twice
Affix: -illion
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Combined with Latin prefixes for names of integers in order to form names of powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000. Thus we have the names billion, trillion, etc.