skillion
skillion noun: a room built against the back of another building, having a separate roof.
Noun (1)
skillion (plural skillions)
- A room built against the back of another building, having a separate roof.
- Synonyms:
- lean-to
Noun (2)
skillion (plural skillions)
- Any indefinitely large number.
- 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...2008, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Christian Wiese, The Legacy of Hans Jonas: Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life
- The trouble with the multiple-universe model is that, however elegantly it may fit the quantum equation for the state vector, most of us simply can't believe in skillions and skillions of universes—each as vast in space and time as the one we think we're in—where everything that can happen really...2012, Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminati Papers
Synonyms of skillion
Forms of skillion
| plural | skillions |
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Origin of skillion
From dialect skilling, from Middle English skyling.
See + -illion.
Words formed from skillion
Questions about skillion
- What does skillion mean?
- Skillion means a room built against the back of another building, having a separate roof.
- What part of speech is skillion?
- Skillion is a noun.
- What is the plural of skillion?
- The plural of skillion is skillions.
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