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English

Etymology

From French billion, from bi- (“two”) +? -illion.

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?l'y?n, IPA^(key): /?b?lj?n/
• Rhymes: -?lj?n
• Hyphenation: bil?lion

Noun

billion (plural billions)

1. (US, modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000^2): 1 followed by nine zeros, 10⁹; a milliard
2. (dated, rare, British & Australian, long scale) A million million (logic: 1,000,000^2): a 1 followed by twelve zeros; 10¹²
3. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.

Synonyms

• (10⁹): milliard, thousand million
• (10¹²): trillion (short scale)

Derived terms

• billionaire

Related terms

• trillion, coined at same time
• zillion, coined after the series million, billion, trillion, quadrillion (modern slang)
• gazillion, from same origin
• -illion, from same origin

Translations

See also

• (short scale) Previous: million. Next trillion.
• (long scale) Previous: milliard. Next billiard.
• ISO prefix: giga-

Danish

Noun

billion

1. 10¹²

Declension

French

Etymology

From bi- (“two”) +? -illion; i.e., a million million.

Coined by Jehan Adam in 1475 as by-million. Rendered as byllion by Nicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.lj??/

Numeral

billion

1. 10¹²; a long scale billion; a short scale trillion.

Usage notes

• Previous: milliard, 10⁹
• Next: billiard, 10¹⁵

Related terms

• trillion, coined at same time

Descendants

• ? Catalan: bilió

References

Further reading

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

Middle French

Noun

billion m (plural billions)

1. billion, a million-million, 10¹²
   • 1520, Étienne de La Roche, L'arismethique novellement composee, page 6

     ung billion vault mille milliers de millions

     a billion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of millions

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English bing, binge, benge, from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”).

Cf also Scottish Gaelic binnean meaning a small hill or slag heap.

Noun

bing (countable and uncountable, plural bings)

1. (prison slang, with "the") Solitary confinement.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry.
3. (chiefly Scotland) The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
4. (Britain, chiefly Scotland) A heap or pile.

Etymology 2

Origin obscure. Compare Scots bin (“to move speedily with noise”).

Verb

bing (third-person singular simple present bings, present participle binging, simple past and past participle binged)

1. (dated slang or dialectal) To go; walk; come; run

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeia of a bouncing sound.

Alternative forms

• ping
• ding
• bong

Interjection

bing

1. (onomatopoeia) The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface

Etymology 4

Noun

bing (plural bings)

1. The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia
   • Toronto Star, "Ryanair looking at standing 'seats,' pay toilets", 2 July 2010, Jim Rankin

     Bing! Ladies and gentlemen, in a few minutes the captain will turn off the fasten seatbelt sign, but for your own safety we recommend you stay seated and with your seatbelt securely fastened at all times.

   • Douglas Florian, 1994

     Bing Bang Boing

   • David Chase, 2003

     The Tao of Bada Bing

2. A sound made by a bounce
3. A bounce

Verb

bing (third-person singular simple present bings, present participle binging, simple past and past participle binged)

1. Making the sound of a bounce
2. To bounce

See also

• ping
• ding
• boing
• bong
• bang
• bada bing bada boom

References

Anagrams

• GBNI, Gbin

Khumi Chin

Etymology

Akin to Burmese ????? (bhin:).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/

Noun

bing

1. opium

References

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?^[1], Payap University, page 42

Mandarin

Romanization

bing

1. Nonstandard spelling of b?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of b?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of bìng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Manx

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bing f (genitive singular bingagh or bingey, plural bingaghyn)

1. committee
2. (law) jury

Derived terms

• bingagh
• co-ving
• fo-ving

Etymology 2

From Old Irish bind, binn (“melodious, harmonious; sweet, pleasing”).

Adjective

bing

1. tuneful, musical, sweet
2. shrill

Derived terms

• kishtey bing (“dulcimer”)
• neuving
• ushag ving

Mutation

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bing m (definite singular bingen, indefinite plural binger, definite plural bingene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by binge

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bing m (definite singular bingen, indefinite plural bingar, definite plural bingane)

1. alternative form of binge

Scots

Alternative forms

• byng

Etymology

From Old Norse bingr; cf. Middle English bynge (“a bin, enclosure, pen”).

Cf also Scottish Gaelic binnean meaning a small hill or slag heap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??/

Noun

bing (plural bings)

1. A man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry. Can also refer to the waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
2. A heap or pile.
3. A small hill, usually manmade.

Verb

bing (third-person singular present bings, present participle bingin, past bingt, past participle bingt)

1. To pile up; to create a bing.

Yagara

Noun

bing

1. father

References

• State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN., 13 May 2019.

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pi???/
• Tone numbers: bing¹
• Hyphenation: bing

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *pli??? (“aquatic leech”). Cognate with Thai ???? (bpling), Lao ??? (p?ng), Lü ??? (?iing), Shan ???? (p?ng).

Noun

bing (old orthography bi?)

1. aquatic leech

Etymology 2

From Mandarin ? (b?ng).

Noun

bing (old orthography bi?)

1. soldier; army