decamillion

English

Etymology

From deca- +‎ million.

Numeral

decamillion (plural decamillions)

1. (uncommon) Ten million.

   Synonym: crore

   • 1951, Norman Mailer [pseudonym; Nachem Malech Mailer], Barbary Shore, New York, N.Y., Toronto, Ont.: Rinehart & Co. Inc., page 241:

     You have no life, and so you do not know what it means to deny what has been the meaning of your life, for if you’ve been wrong, mark you now, if you’ve been wrong, then what of the decamillion of graves, and so you’re committed, you’re committed wholly, do you understand? and each action you perform can only confirm you further in your political position or what I would now call the lack of one, and there’s only the nightmare of yourself if you’re wrong, […]

   • 1990 September 1, Otis L[ove] Guernsey Jr., “Editor’s Note”, in Otis L. Guernsey Jr., Jeffrey Sweet, editors, The Burns Mantle Theater Yearbook of 1989–1990: Featuring the Ten Best Plays of the Season, New York, N.Y.: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, →ISBN, page vii:

     And this more fabulous than invalid Broadway was already getting ready for another upbeat year with a decamillion-plus advance sale for a musical that isn’t expected to open until April 1991.

   • 1996, Michael L. Johnson, “Rewriters of the Purple Sage, Part 1: Trails to New Western Literature”, in New Westers: The West in Contemporary American Culture, Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 127:

     Drawing on Gerald D. Nash’s historiography, [James C.] Work rehearses the necessary background—the so-called closing of the frontier, the migration of decamillions of people into the twentieth-century West, then the subsequent anomie, “disjunction” among the cultures involved, and environmental devastation—and arrives at a consequence: the utter difficulty, for contemporary writers acutely aware of what has transpired, of writing about the “West of ‘once upon a time.’”

   • 1996, Steve Perry, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 201:

     Were his fortunes to evaporate and leave him completely broke, Xizor would still not sell this plant, not if somebody offered him a decamillion credits.

   • 1999, Edwin Black, Format C:, Cambridge, Mass.: Brookline Books, →ISBN, page 213:

     Nearly 300 million computers worldwide installed Windgazer 99 beginning June 8, 1999. Decamillions of those users worshipped the Windgazer 99 screen saver as a gift from the heavens.

   • 1999, Paul R. Fleischman, “Why I Sit”, in Karma and Chaos: New and Collected Essays on Vipassana Meditation, New Delhi: New Age Books, published 2004, →ISBN, page 21:

     Even coming from my conditioning of nihilism and dread, without the comfort of simple beliefs, aware of awesome human evil and hatred, of wars that kill decamillions, I can be, I will be, an expression of contentless faith.

   • 2002, Young Back Choi, “Misunderstanding Distribution”, in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D[ycus] Miller, Jr., Jeffrey Paul, editors, Should Differences in Income and Wealth Matter?, Cambridge, Cambs.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132:

     Not all large gains are held in suspicion, of course. For example, I have not heard social critics charging that the baseball slugger Mark McGwire’s decamillion-dollar income is at someone else’s expense.

   • 2003, Maury Dean, “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Us!”, in Rock ’n’ Roll Gold Rush: A Singles Un-cyclopedia, New York, N.Y.: Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 571, column 2:

     By May 2000, their [the Backstreet Boys’] #4 Al. 11-99 Millennium hurdled the decamillion (10M) mountain (who NEEDS #1?)

   • 2008, Nathan Morris, “[Moonlight on Nathan Morris] Nathan’s Moonlighting Story”, in Yanik Silver, Robert Olic, Moonlighting on the Internet: 5 World-Class Experts Reveal Proven Ways to Make an Extra Paycheck Online Each Month, [Irvine, Calif.]: Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Moonlighting on the Internet Method #1), section 1 (Selling Digitally Delivered Information), chapter 4 (How to Figure Out What Information to Sell), page 32, column 1:

     If I want to take off for a week with friends or family, it’s not a problem at all, because I don’t have to apply to get off and I don’t have a loss of income for doing that. I am free to do whatever I can dream to do, and THAT alone is success. Even once I hit the millions and hopefully decamillions in years to come, I don’t think any of that is going to be as big of an accomplishment as having the freedom to live without a job.

   • 2008, David J. Mullen, Jr., The Million-Dollar Financial Services Practice: A Proven System for Becoming a Top Producer, New York, N.Y.: AMACOM, American Management Association, →ISBN, pages 8 (part 1, The Foundation; chapter 1, Overview) and 193 (part 2, Taking It to the Next Level: Building a Million-Dollar Practice; chapter 19, Beyond a Million-Dollar Practice):

     After you have made your commitments (motivation) and set your goals (and the time frame for reaching them), you must understand that the most important characteristic is sustained and relentless marketing. The most successful million-, multimillion- and decamillion-dollar advisors I have worked with never quit marketing. […] The most successful advisor I have ever worked with, a decamillion-dollar advisor, was a leader in the most important high-profile philanthropic organizations in his marketplace.

   • 2009, Jon Kramer, Julie Martinez, “Pinnacles National Monument”, in California Underground Adventures: A Guide to Caves, Mines and Lava Tubes, Cambridge, Minn.: Adventure Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 148:

     The end result is the Pinnacles Volcanic Formation (PVF) consisting of massive pile-ups of volcanic debris. But the story of woe doesn’t stop there: Over the next few decamillion years, aggressive faulting thugs continuously barged in and out, uprooting solid-rock neighborhoods and throwing things all over the place. The PVF has been continually subjected to such severe geologic injustices that the World Geohealth Organization has called on the international community to put an end to the violence.

   • 2010, Ken MacLeod, The Restoration Game, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page xv:

     ‘So far,’ says Caro Odoma, the other Alexandrian, ‘the sim-people have shown remarkable creativity in rationalising these . . . dark matters!’ His sidelong glance shares some private joke with his colleague, to your intense irritation. ‘They’re resilient – I wouldn’t worry about cultural calamity.’ / ‘No indeed!’ you snap back. ‘I’d worry about their dying by the decamillion in agony!’

   • 2012, Aristotle Karas, “Achieve Your Goals, Faster, Easier, Simpler”, in Step into Your Vision: Top Business Leaders Share Their Goal-Setting Secrets, Treasure Island, Fla.: Komera Press, →ISBN, page 105:

     I had the opportunity to sell a $14.6 million property in Hawaii, but lacked the experience to do it; I had never sold a home in Hawaii nor a decamillion dollar property.

   • 2023, Amjad Farooq, Summary of The Oqual Cycle: The 84-Year Rhythm of Human Civilization, Miami, Fla.: Oquannium Xpress, →ISBN, page 94:

     Having been inflated by cheap money for more than a decade, the stock-market bubble will pop and wipe off the life-savings of decamillions in America in an echo of the 1929 crash and making the 2008 financial meltdown look like a dress rehearsal.

Related terms

• centimillion
• decabillion
• decamillionaire

Translations

ten million — see ten million