grillion

/ ˈɡrɪljən /

noun

1. often plural an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount

   he had grillions more goes than me

determiner

1. amounting to a grillion

   a grillion years old

Word History and Origins

Origin of grillion¹

C20: on the model of million

Example Sentences

You know about Grillion's, where men dine without quarrelling, and where, by a pleasant fiction, no bore is supposed to live.

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“He told me at Grillion's that I thereby made him chancellor of the exchequer.”

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He was frequently to be seen at the Athenaeum, was a member both of Grillion’s and The Club, as well as of the Literary Society, of which he was president, and whose meetings he very rarely missed.

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The American headquarters in Paris during the Peace Conference were in the Hotel Grillion, which is on the Place de la Concorde in the heart of the city.

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Here Louis XVIII. lodged in 1814, and Grillion's Club, formed 1813, had its meetings.

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