jillion

noun

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Recent Examples of jillion But America, with its jillion colleges and universities, dotting the land? — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 July 2023 Netflix, and platforms hoping to keep up with it, poured jillions of dollars pursuing so much content that viewers were quickly overwhelmed. — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023 By virtue of its origins in Croatia—a country without an automotive industry before Rimac—most of the technology in the Nevera is home grown—from motors and batteries, inverters and e-axles, to infotainment and connectivity systems, to the chassis system’s jillion lines of code. — Dan Neil, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
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  1. zillion
  2. million
  3. gazillion
  4. kazillion
  5. trillion
Noun
  • Pablo was fine — light and energetic — Kolby was just a zillion times more compelling.
    — Charlie Mason, TVLine, 10 Mar. 2025
  • And about a zillion other things in this beautiful house of desserts.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of zillion
Noun
  • Some people can and do splash out tens of millions of dollars on a trophy home in a prime location.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2025
  • His medical center relies on millions of dollars in federal support to treat all its patients.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of million
Noun
  • Adam Sandler In his monologue, Conan O'Brien called out Adam Sandler for being underdressed on an evening where everyone from Timothée Chalamet to Michelle Yeoh was wearing a gazillion dollars of diamonds.
    — Alex Apatoff, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
  • These investigations of the guy with the gazillions are going to be gone.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of gazillion
Noun
  • He’s made a kazillion dollars since then.
    — James Hibberd, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • After what felt like a million kazillion years of waiting, the live-action leads of Aladdin were finally announced last weekend.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 17 July 2017
Definition of kazillion
Noun
  • With trillions of dollars there for the taking, investments are being made by the same small coterie of companies and people that now controls the entire federal government.
    — Kara Swisher, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The freeze, which potentially affects trillions of dollars, was implemented by the White House last month to ensure compliance with Trump's orders barring diversity programs.
    — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
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