🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

bilhões

Pronunciation / Transliteration: biˈlõis

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bazillion/bəˈzɪl.jən/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eu já disse isso bilhões de vezes."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An extremely large, unspecified, and indefinite number; a zillion.

    "She has asked me a bazillion times not to leave the door open."
  2. 2

    A hyperbole used to denote an incalculable or immense quantity of something.

    "There are a bazillion different ways to solve this programming problem."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in the 20th century as an arbitrary coinage, blending the number 'billion' with the prefix 'ba-' for humorous effect or exaggerated hyperbole. It follows a linguistic pattern of playful indefinite high-number terms like 'gazillion' and 'zillion'.

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