skillion

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A room built against the back of another building, having a separate roof.
  2. Any indefinitely large number. excessive,slang
    — In fact, human experience requires not just one society but a nest of such societies, ordered in special ways. For instance, there need to be societies drawing out all the trains of thought that come together in a single judgment, and there need to be skillions of societies (a skillion is a very large number) tracing causal inputs from the body, the atmosphere, gravitation, human culture, the New York Times, and whatever else provides the context for a single thought.

词形变化

skillions plural skillions plural

词源

词源 1
From dialect skilling, from Middle English skyling.
词源 2
See + -illion.
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