trillion
Part of speech: num
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from French trillion, from French tri- (“three”) + -illion, equivalent to tri- + -illion.
The noun was coined by American basketball player Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score.
Affixes: tri-
-illion
Inflected forms:
form: trillions
pos: num
tags: plural
form: trillions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two large amounts:
pos: num
tags: Australia
UK
US
modern
examples: Javik: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer.
Data published by the Treasury Department showed that “total public debt outstanding” rose to $34.001 trillion on December 29.
As President Donald Trump prepares to order the dismantling of the Department of Education, the financial arm of the agency – which makes loans directly to borrowers and manages trillions of dollars in student debt – faces an uncertain future, with steep staff cuts and lack of communication exacerbating the uncertainty, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former department employees.
gloss: Either of two large amounts:
pos: num
tags: Australia
UK
dated
gloss: An unspecified very large number.
pos: num
tags: colloquial
excessive
examples: Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion
There were trillions of people at the concert.
gloss: A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: Previous: billion. Next: quadrillion
Previous: billiard. Next: trilliard
tera-
Derived words: megatrillion
multitrillion
trillionaire
trillionfold
trillionth
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: biljoen
lang: Arabic
word: بِلْيُون
roman: bilyūn
lang: Arabic
word: تِرِيلِيُون
roman: tirīliyūn
lang: Armenian
word: տրիլիոն
roman: trilion
lang: Armenian
word: երկիլիոն
roman: erkilion
lang: Belarusian
word: трыльён
roman: trylʹjón
lang: Bulgarian
word: трилио́н
roman: trilión
lang: Burmese
word: ထရီလီယံ
roman: hta.riliyam
lang: Catalan
word: bilió
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 萬億 /万亿
roman: wànyì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 兆
roman: zhào
lang: Czech
word: bilión
lang: Dutch
word: biljoen
lang: Esperanto
word: biliono
lang: Esperanto
word: duiliono
lang: Estonian
word: biljon
lang: Faroese
word: billión
lang: Finnish
word: biljoona
lang: French
word: billion
lang: French
word: mille milliards
lang: Georgian
word: ტრილიონი
roman: ṭrilioni
lang: German
word: Billion
lang: Greek
word: τρισεκατομμύριο
roman: trisekatommýrio
lang: Greenlandic
word: billioni
lang: Hindi
word: महापद्म
roman: mahāpadma
lang: Hungarian
word: billió
lang: Indonesian
word: triliun
lang: Indonesian
word: biliun
lang: Italian
word: bilione
lang: Japanese
word: 兆
roman: chō
lang: Javanese
word: kirna
lang: Khmer
word: ពាន់ពាន់លាន
roman: pŏənpŏənliən
lang: Khmer
word: លានលាន
roman: liən liən
lang: Korean
word: 조
roman: jo
lang: Korean
word: 만억
roman: maneok
lang: Malay
word: trilion
lang: Maltese
word: biljun
lang: Manchu
word: ᠰᠠᠵᠠ
roman: saja
lang: Navajo
word: chiyóón
lang: Persian
word: تریلیون
roman: terilyon
lang: Polish
word: bilion
lang: Portuguese
word: bilião
lang: Portuguese
word: trilhão
lang: Romanian
word: bilion
lang: Russian
word: триллио́н
roman: trillión
lang: Sanskrit
word: महापद्म
roman: mahāpadma
lang: Slovak
word: bilión
lang: Spanish
word: billón
lang: Swahili
word: trilioni
lang: Swedish
word: biljon
lang: Tagalog
word: trilyon
lang: Tatar
word: триллион
roman: trilliyon
lang: Turkish
word: trilyon
lang: Ukrainian
word: трильйо́н
roman: trylʹjón
lang: Vietnamese
word: nghìn tỉ
lang: Vietnamese
word: ngàn tỉ
lang: Yiddish
word: ביליאָן
roman: bilyon
lang: Arabic
word: تِرِيلِْيُون
roman: tirīliyūn
lang: Armenian
word: եռիլիոն
roman: eṙilion
lang: Catalan
word: trilió
lang: Czech
word: trilión
lang: Dutch
word: triljoen
lang: Esperanto
word: triiliono
lang: Estonian
word: triljon
lang: Faroese
word: trillión
lang: Finnish
word: triljoona
lang: French
word: trillion
lang: German
word: Trillion
lang: Italian
word: trilione
lang: Maltese
word: triljun
lang: Manchu
word: ᡨᠠᠩᡤᡡ ᠵᡳᡵᡠᠨ
roman: tanggū jirun
lang: Māori
word: tiriona
lang: Polish
word: trylion
lang: Portuguese
word: trilião
lang: Portuguese
word: quintilhão
lang: Romanian
word: trilion
lang: Russian
word: квинтиллио́н
roman: kvintillión
lang: Sinhalese
word: ත්රිලියනය
roman: triliyanaya
lang: Slovak
word: trilión
lang: Spanish
word: trillón
lang: Swedish
word: triljon
lang: Turkish
word: kentilyon