Zillion
noun
A very large number of something, not exact but too big to count.
I have a zillion things to do today.
Often appears as...
- a zillion times
- a zillion questions
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Informal
Colloquial
noun
A very large number of something, not exact but too big to count.
I have a zillion things to do today.
Often appears as...
- a zillion times
- a zillion questions
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Exaggeration
Used to show that something is exaggerated beyond actual numbers, often for humorous effect or frustration.
I've told you a zillion times not to exaggerate!
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Speech
Primarily used in casual conversations, not in formal writing or speeches.
She has zillion friends on social media.
Pro Tip 3/3Imprecise Quantity
It doesn't represent an actual number; it's used when the number is unknown or unimportant.
There were zillions of stars in the sky.
Pro Tip 1/3Exaggeration
Used to show that something is exaggerated beyond actual numbers, often for humorous effect or frustration.
I've told you a zillion times not to exaggerate!
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Speech
Primarily used in casual conversations, not in formal writing or speeches.
She has zillion friends on social media.
Pro Tip 3/3Imprecise Quantity
It doesn't represent an actual number; it's used when the number is unknown or unimportant.
There were zillions of stars in the sky.
Pro Tip 1/3Exaggeration
Used to show that something is exaggerated beyond actual numbers, often for humorous effect or frustration.
I've told you a zillion times not to exaggerate!
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Speech
Primarily used in casual conversations, not in formal writing or speeches.
She has zillion friends on social media.
Pro Tip 3/3Imprecise Quantity
It doesn't represent an actual number; it's used when the number is unknown or unimportant.
There were zillions of stars in the sky.
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What Makes a Great...
activity would involve that thing open that one down by its tongue photographers can spend their life trying to photograph flickers and woodpeckers never come across that moment of one bird catching the other birds by the top that's just that's like it's one in a bazillion the soldier is
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Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
Bottom right depicts our universe, which on the horizon is not beyond that, but even that is just one bubble, as it were, in some vaster reality. Many people suspect that just as we've gone from believing in one solar system to zillions of solar systems, one galaxy to many galaxies,
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Climbing Asia’s...
because we were going for two months and there's probably only, like, ten days of actual climbing. So, first of all getting a bunch of athletes together is like herding cats. They're all over the world, all the time and then we show up, you know, in Tokyo with a zillion bags.
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Making waves: The power...
Let's put you back in the ocean to see how this works. Snap! You're transformed into a molecule of surface water, off the temperate coast of New York surrounded by a zillion rowdy others. Here, the sun's rays act as an energizer that set you and the other water molecules
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Mutant All-Black Penguin...
king penguin astonishing he jokingly said it's a one in a zillion kind of mutation and scientifically calls it very rare he explains that typically melanistic birds will have white spots where melanin pigmentation has failed to color the feathers but it's extremely
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Todd Kuiken: A...
and we wanted to get more. You can move each finger. You can move your thumb, your wrist. Can we get more out of it? So we did some experiments where we saturated our poor patients with zillions of electrodes and then had them try to do two dozen different tasks --
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Martin Rees: Can we...
I and others pointed out that nature has done the same experiments zillions of times already, via cosmic ray collisions. But scientists should surely be precautionary about experiments that generate conditions without precedent in the natural world.
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Computing a theory of...
with lots and lots of challenges. For a start, one has to curate a zillion different sources of facts and data, and we built quite a pipeline of Mathematica automation and human domain experts for doing this. But that's just the beginning.
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Dear Aunt Bonnie, I’m...
because he's like you know he started by I've never even heard of so many of these people and he you know started PayPal and made a zillion dollars and then he did Tesla what he's doing electric cars and then he started like a
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Meru: Filming the Epic...
and I try not to dwell on those too much but And, you know in the documentary world if you didn't get it it didn't happen, so you know, then you're juggling that pressure. I mean, just a zillion details here that, you know
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What Makes a Great...
activity would involve that thing open that one down by its tongue photographers can spend their life trying to photograph flickers and woodpeckers never come across that moment of one bird catching the other birds by the top that's just that's like it's one in a bazillion the soldier is
Video examples
Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
Bottom right depicts our universe, which on the horizon is not beyond that, but even that is just one bubble, as it were, in some vaster reality. Many people suspect that just as we've gone from believing in one solar system to zillions of solar systems, one galaxy to many galaxies,
Video examples
Climbing Asia’s...
because we were going for two months and there's probably only, like, ten days of actual climbing. So, first of all getting a bunch of athletes together is like herding cats. They're all over the world, all the time and then we show up, you know, in Tokyo with a zillion bags.
Video examples
Making waves: The power...
Let's put you back in the ocean to see how this works. Snap! You're transformed into a molecule of surface water, off the temperate coast of New York surrounded by a zillion rowdy others. Here, the sun's rays act as an energizer that set you and the other water molecules
Video examples
Mutant All-Black Penguin...
king penguin astonishing he jokingly said it's a one in a zillion kind of mutation and scientifically calls it very rare he explains that typically melanistic birds will have white spots where melanin pigmentation has failed to color the feathers but it's extremely
Video examples
Todd Kuiken: A...
and we wanted to get more. You can move each finger. You can move your thumb, your wrist. Can we get more out of it? So we did some experiments where we saturated our poor patients with zillions of electrodes and then had them try to do two dozen different tasks --
Video examples
Martin Rees: Can we...
I and others pointed out that nature has done the same experiments zillions of times already, via cosmic ray collisions. But scientists should surely be precautionary about experiments that generate conditions without precedent in the natural world.
Video examples
Computing a theory of...
with lots and lots of challenges. For a start, one has to curate a zillion different sources of facts and data, and we built quite a pipeline of Mathematica automation and human domain experts for doing this. But that's just the beginning.
Video examples
Dear Aunt Bonnie, I’m...
because he's like you know he started by I've never even heard of so many of these people and he you know started PayPal and made a zillion dollars and then he did Tesla what he's doing electric cars and then he started like a
Video examples
Meru: Filming the Epic...
and I try not to dwell on those too much but And, you know in the documentary world if you didn't get it it didn't happen, so you know, then you're juggling that pressure. I mean, just a zillion details here that, you know
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
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John Grisham
American Writer
I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.
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Frank Peretti
American Author
When you are making a movie, there are a zillion cooks in the kitchen, and you don't always get what you want to do. The story can always go in a different direction than what you would like. You compromise, and there is dealing and bickering.
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Rivers Cuomo
American Musician
In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana's biggest fan in the Nineties. I'm sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick. It made my heart hurt.
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Bipasha Basu
Indian Actress
I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.
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Louis Leterrier
French Director
Iron Man' was this fun, poppy thing bound to make a zillion dollars. And we were the other side of a superhero movie. More complex with The Hulk being this complex character - that's what it was.
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Glen Campbell
American Musician
With the TV shows, you get eight zillion people watching you. I was really surprised at the way everything went. I knew television was powerful, but that was just... wow.
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Paul Davies
British Writer
A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.
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Jon Pardi
American Musician
You've got these guys that have this fresh, street, hip-hop country that sells a zillion. Keep doing that. I'll keep doing my stuff. We'll see how it goes.
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Delilah
British Musician
I never in a million bazillion trillion years imagined that my life would have this many layers of love and richness.
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
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John Grisham
American Writer
I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.
Quote examples
Frank Peretti
American Author
When you are making a movie, there are a zillion cooks in the kitchen, and you don't always get what you want to do. The story can always go in a different direction than what you would like. You compromise, and there is dealing and bickering.
Quote examples
Rivers Cuomo
American Musician
In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana's biggest fan in the Nineties. I'm sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick. It made my heart hurt.
Quote examples
Bipasha Basu
Indian Actress
I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.
Quote examples
Louis Leterrier
French Director
Iron Man' was this fun, poppy thing bound to make a zillion dollars. And we were the other side of a superhero movie. More complex with The Hulk being this complex character - that's what it was.
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Glen Campbell
American Musician
With the TV shows, you get eight zillion people watching you. I was really surprised at the way everything went. I knew television was powerful, but that was just... wow.
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Paul Davies
British Writer
A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.
Quote examples
Jon Pardi
American Musician
You've got these guys that have this fresh, street, hip-hop country that sells a zillion. Keep doing that. I'll keep doing my stuff. We'll see how it goes.
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Delilah
British Musician
I never in a million bazillion trillion years imagined that my life would have this many layers of love and richness.
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