trillion

UK /ˈtɹɪljən/ US /ˈtɹɪ(l)jən/

num 3noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

dead, easy, powerful, tiny, untapped

VERB + TRILLION

comprised, count, surpassed, valued

TRILLION + NOUN

consumer, debt, december, dollars, earth, example, kilometers, kilometres

PREP.

about, from, in, on, on, than

ADV.

always, relatively

Definitions

num

Either of two large amounts:

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.

Either of two large amounts:

An unspecified very large number.

Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion

There were trillions of people at the concert.

noun

A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)

million
billion
zillion
jillion
gazillion
bazillion

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Javik: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer.

Wiktionary

Data published by the Treasury Department showed that “total public debt outstanding” rose to $34.001 trillion on December 29.

Wiktionary

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 i

Wiktionary

The current debt limit stands at $15.2 trillion.

Tatoeba · #1363018

A light-year is the distance light travels in one year. It's 9.5 trillion (9,500,000,000,000) kilometers.

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The total net worth of the world's richest people rose by 18% in 2016 to $7.67 trillion.

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Usage Notes

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In some senses, trillion is marked as dated, slang, British, US, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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