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English

Alternative forms

• billet
• billit

Noun

billard (plural billards)

1. An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French billard (“billiards, pool table”).

Noun

billard c (definite singular billarden) (uncountable)

1. billiards (a ball game played on a billiard table)

Noun

billard n (definite singular billardet, indefinite plural billarder, definite plural billarderne)

1. a billiard table (another name for billardbord)

French

Etymology

Derived from bille (“log, tree trunk”) +? -ard, the term billard ("little log") originally referring to the cue stick with which the game is played.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.ja?/

Noun

billard m (plural billards)

1. billiards
2. pool table
3. (slang) operating table

Derived terms

• sur le billard
• passer sur le billard

Descendants

Further reading

• “billard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?l.i.?(?)d/

Noun

billiard (plural billiards)

1. A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
2. (attributive) Pertaining to the game of billiards.

   a billiard table; a billiard ball

3. A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.

Translations

Etymology 2

From French billiard, equivalent to bi- (“two”) +? -illiard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?l.i.??(?)d/

Numeral

billiard (plural billiards)

1. (Britain, rare) 10¹⁵, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.

Synonyms

• (10¹⁵): a short scale quadrillion

Translations

See also

• Previous: billion. Next: trillion.
• Symbolic: 10¹⁵ = 1,000,000,000,000,000

French

Etymology

From bi- (“two”) +? -illiard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.lja?/

Numeral

billiard

1. 10¹⁵, a thousand billion by the long scale, a short scale quadrillion.

Usage notes

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