English-French translations for billion

• billion
• milliard
  Non pas 162 milliards, mais un milliard. Not 162 billion, but one billion.
  Dix-sept milliards d’euros au total, l’équivalent de 110 milliards de francs. EUR 17 billion in total, equivalent to 110 billion francs.
  D'où une perte de quelque 2 milliards d'euros. Around EUR 2 billion were lost.
• milliards
  Non pas 162 milliards, mais un milliard. Not 162 billion, but one billion.
  Dix-sept milliards d’euros au total, l’équivalent de 110 milliards de francs. EUR 17 billion in total, equivalent to 110 billion francs.
  D'où une perte de quelque 2 milliards d'euros. Around EUR 2 billion were lost.
• millions
  Ces questions exigent non pas des millions, Monsieur le Commissaire, mais des milliards. These are questions not of millions, Commissioner, but of billions.
  Il s'agit d'un marché d'une valeur annuelle de 90 millions d'euros. This is a market worth EUR 90 billion annually.
  Sommes-nous du côté de 1,2 milliard de Chinois ou de 8 millions d'Ouïghours? Are we on the side of 1.2 billion Chinese or 8 million Uighurs?

Definition of billion

• a thousand million : 1 followed by nine zeros, 10⁹; a milliard
• A million million : a 1 followed by twelve zeros; 10¹²
• An unspecified very large number

Examples

• There were billions of people at the concert

Related words

• billionaire
• multi-billion
• multibillion
• billionth
• multibillionaire
• billionairess
• half-billion
• brittienglannin laajalti käytöstä poistunut) billion
• half a billion