Definition of "milliard" [‖Mil•liard]

• Chiefly British The cardinal number equal to 109. (noun)

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• "One point two billion pounds. (that's a uk billion - one million million, not a us billion correctly called a milliard)."
• "FWIW, the word 'milliard' means billion in French."
• "The synonyms architectural and western are almost always used instead of architectonic and occidental. other examples being petroleum (excepting technical use and OPEC) and milliard."