zillion
A zillion is a very, very large number. How large is it? When you want to exaggerate a number, use a zillion. It’s not a real number, but it’s used to express things that are nearly impossible to count.
- It’ll cost zillions of dollars to send human beings to Mars.
- Shopping the day after Thanksgiving is not fun because there are zillions of shoppers in the stores.
- There are zillons of stars and planets in the universe.
- I can give you a zillion reasons for not doing that.
- Zillions of ants came out from under that old log when Jeff pushed it over with his foot.
You can see zillions of stars at night.