American English
/ˈbɪl.jn̩/
2 syllables · Stress the first syllable.
The number 1,000,000,000.
Practice out loudThe number 1,000,000,000.
The company is worth a billion dollars.
Billions of stars are in the galaxy.
In American English, a billion is 1,000,000,000. Spanish billón usually means 1,000,000,000,000, so use mil millones for this word.
a billion dollars · a billion people · billions of dollars · one billion years
a billion + noun
billions of + plural noun
Used before a plural noun to say that there are 1,000,000,000 of something.
A billion people use the internet.
The country has two billion tons of coal.
billion people · billion dollars · billion tons · billion years
a billion + plural noun
two billion + plural noun
a very large number of
Billions of people watched the event.
an industry worth one billion dollars
Gaming is a billion-dollar industry.