Dictionary

squillion en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈskwɪljən/
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

See -illion.

Meanings

1. (slang, used hyperbolically) A very large, unspecified number (of).
   • You thinks to yourself, ‘There’s a billion, trillion squillion of them, no one’s going to notice.’ But that’s where professionalism comes in, sort of thing. 1990, Terry Pratchett, Eric, page 138:
   • I just ran the numbers and got 1.7 squillion, myself. 2004 May 8, Noelle S. Alito, “Re: Entropy”, in talk.origins (Usenet):
   • It'll just take a squillion times longer than the age of the universe to happen. 2004 May 7, Xaonon, “Re: Entropy”, in talk.origins (Usenet):
   • The word million was adequate for most things, billion came in handy on occasions, but if you wanted to use a word for a very, very large number, you just had to invent one. Anna invented one: a squillion. 1974, Fynn, Mister God, This Is Anna, Ballantine Books (2000), pages 102-103

Forms

Deriveds

squillionth · squillionaire