biljard
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from German Billiarde.
Noun
biljard n (plural biljarden, diminutive biljardje n)
- quadrillion (1015)
Etymology 2
Noun
biljard n or m (plural biljarden or biljards, diminutive biljardje n)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
biljard m (definite singular biljarden, indefinite plural biljarder, definite plural biljardene)
Synonyms
- (sense 2) biljardbord
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
biljard m (definite singular biljarden, uncountable)
Derived terms
References
- “biljard” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
biljard c
- (uncountable) pool, billiards, snooker
- (disputed) the number 1015; a (short scale) quadrillion
Usage notes
As with other numbers ending in -jard (with the exception of miljard, 109), this number is disputed, as several authorities claim that it "is not numeral" and "there is no name for thousand billions in Swedish", respectively. However, the linguist Allan Ellegård claimed in 1980 the opposite.
Declension
| Declension of biljard | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | biljard | biljarden | biljarder | biljarderna |
| Genitive | biljards | biljardens | biljarders | biljardernas |
Derived terms
- (pool): biljardbord, biljardboll, biljardhall
References
- ^ “Kjell Elfstöm, lecturer in mathematics at Lund University, 1997”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), 2009 September 20 (last accessed), archived from the original on 20 May 2009
- ^ “Terminologicentralen”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), 2009 September 20 (last accessed), archived from the original on 13 July 2015
- ^ Tidskriften Språkvård/1980:2, Om namn på höga tal