jillion
/ˈdʒɪljən
/cardinal number informal, chiefly North American
An extremely large number: they ran jillions of ads...
- Why is he telling us that his jillions of readers have a question?
- Here on the Front Range, we get jillions of the little guys every spring.
- When you compare it to previous wars, the Second World War, the Vietnam War, a jillion other wars, civilian casualties were very low.
Origin
1940s: fanciful formation on the pattern of billion and million.
Rhymes
- election
- electioneer
- elective
- elective affinity
- electively
- elective mutism
- elector
- electoral
- electoral college
- electorally
- electoral register
- electoral roll
- electoral vote
- electorate
- electorate MP
- electorate vote
- Elector Palatine
- electorship
- Electra
- Electra complex
- electralise
- electralize
- electress
- electret
- electric