word-vault/dist/data/cards/bi/billion.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "billion",
    "partOfSpeech": "number",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "1 000 000 000; one thousand million",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Worldwide sales reached 2.5 billion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "half a billion dollars"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have spent billions on the problem *(= billions of dollars, etc.)*."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement", "Money"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a very large amount",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Our immune systems are killing billions of germs right now."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "1 000 000 000 000; one million million",
            "labels": "(British English, old-fashioned)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɪljən/",
                "audio": "bi/billion/billion__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbɪljən/",
                "audio": "bi/billion/billion__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 17th cent.: from French, from million, by substitution of the prefix bi- ‘two’ for the initial letters."
}