biljard

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɪlˈjɑrt/
  • Hyphenation: bil‧jard
  • Rhymes: -ɑrt
  • Homophone: biljart

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Billiarde.

Noun

biljard n (plural biljarden, diminutive biljardje n)

  1. quadrillion (1015)

Etymology 2

Noun

biljard n or m (plural biljarden or biljards, diminutive biljardje n)

  1. Obsolete spelling of biljart.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French billard

Noun

biljard m (definite singular biljarden, indefinite plural biljarder, definite plural biljardene)

  1. (games) billiards
  2. a billiard table

Synonyms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French billard

Noun

biljard m (definite singular biljarden, uncountable)

  1. (games) billiards

References

Swedish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɪlˈjɑːrd/

Noun

biljard c

  1. (uncountable) pool, billiards, snooker
  2. (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[1][2] claim that it "is not numeral" and "there is no name for thousand billions [e.g. 1015] in Swedish", respectively. However, the linguist Allan Ellegård claimed in[3] 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

References
  1. “Kjell Elfstöm, lecturer in mathematics at Lund University, 1997”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎, accessed 20 September 2009, archived from the original on 20 May 2009
  2. “Terminologicentralen”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎, accessed 20 September 2009, archived from the original on 13 July 2015
  3. Tidskriften Språkvård/1980:2, Om namn på höga tal
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