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nonillion Sep 25th 2012, 03:34 ‎Noun: merge cites, but which def gloss or non-gloss? ← Older revision Revision as of 03:34, 25 September 2012 Line 57: Line 57:   {{en-noun}}   {{en-noun}}       + # {{hyperbole}} {{n-g|Used to indicate an exceptionally large number}}   # An unspecified very large number.   # An unspecified very large number.   + #* {{quote-book|title={{w|The Enormous Room}}| page=181| books.google.com/books?isbn=140684974X| author={{w|E. E. Cummings}}| year_published=2008| year=1922| passage=Who are a million, a trillion, a '''nonillion''' young men? All are standing. I am standing. We are wedged in and on and over and under each other. Sardines.}}   + #* {{quote-book|title=Playing The Odds: Eternity's Your Bet| page=90| books.google.com/books?isbn=1885305257| author=Jay Carty| year=1995 |passage=How about a year, or a lifetime, or a really long time, like umpteen-jillion-quadtrillion-'''nonillion'''-decillion-billion years? Now that would be a long time in the fire}}   + #* {{quote-book|title=Handbook of global environmental policy and administration| page=112| books.google.com/books?isbn=0824719891| author=Dennis L. Soden, Brent Steel| year=1999| passage=Without any further information it would be easy to conclude that the National Park Service could raise as much as $500 '''nonillion''' in entrance fee revenues by charging entrance fees to those other 90% of the visitors who do not now pay}}}}   #* '''2002''' [[CE]]: James C. Mayer, 'Student-Led Poetry Workshops' (which appears in 'The English Journal', volume 91, number 3, 'Teaching and Writing Poetry')   #* '''2002''' [[CE]]: James C. Mayer, 'Student-Led Poetry Workshops' (which appears in 'The English Journal', volume 91, number 3, 'Teaching and Writing Poetry')   #*: '''I then looked into the zatetic forest behind it'' / ''And saw a '''nonillion''', no, a novemdecillion of them!'''.   #*: '''I then looked into the zatetic forest behind it'' / ''And saw a '''nonillion''', no, a novemdecillion of them!'''.   + #* {{quote-book|title=The Man Who Broke Purple| books.google.com/books?isbn=1448206197| author=Ronald Clark| year=2011| passage=But we have '''nonillion''' dollars invested in them at NSA. When I was active in the organization I objected strenuously but the boys then wouldn't listen to this 'old fogey'.}}   +       ====Synonyms====   ====Synonyms====

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