millionaire
or mil·lion·naire
a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more in some unit of currency, as dollars.
any very rich person.
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Origin of millionaire
1Other words from millionaire
- mil·lion·aire·dom, noun
- non·mil·lion·aire, noun
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How to use millionaire in a sentence
It’s also made non-billionaires who can afford to buy stocks much richer, and turned many an average Joe into millionaires.
Bitcoin may be all the hype this year, having soared far beyond its 2017 high and minted new millionaires with a $40,000 price tag.
This is coming from a millionaire, like Zooey, she was already rich before she started New Girl.
The Best Money Advice Lamorne Morris Ever Got … From Zooey Deschanel | Daniel Malloy | November 27, 2020 | OzyMore money for the millionaires & billionaires, the investors and WallStreet.
Bloomberg recently found that 68 shareholders were likely to become millionaires after Nongfu’s Hong Kong listing, including several members of Zhong’s extended family.
A blockbuster IPO briefly made a bottled water entrepreneur China’s richest man | Grady McGregor | September 8, 2020 | Fortune
According to the Los Angeles Times, Atkins got married in 1981 to “a self-proclaimed Texas millionaire” named Donald Laisure.
Charles Manson, Ted Bundy & Other Notorious Jailhouse Weddings | Caitlin Dickson | November 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBookstores are stocked with self-help books telling girls how to bag a millionaire.
Take, for example, the German internet millionaire Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload, an online file sharing service.
The question will be whether Vieira—who succeeded on The View, the Today show and Who Wants to be a millionaire?
Will Meredith Vieira Ever Stop Crying? Her Emotional Daytime TV Debut | Lloyd Grove | September 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBob,” says George Cafego, a Vol tailback then and a UT assistant coach now, “had every opportunity to be a millionaire.
Football Great Bob Suffridge Wanders Through the End Zone of Life | Paul Hemphill | September 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA millionaire might offer more for a life belt as a souvenir than a drowning man could pay for it to save his life.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockShe wondered if he would take his youth in his bald-headed season, like the self-made American millionaire.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonThe social ambitions of the Tippetts were so definitely quenched that the indignant millionaire threatened to return to Chicago.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonBesides, Mr. Hofer is one of that small millionaire group that is trying to clean up San Francisco municipally.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonWith twenty-five dollars in his hand, Henry felt like a millionaire as he edged through the crowd to the gate.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner
British Dictionary definitions for millionaire
millionnaire
/ (ˌmɪljəˈnɛə) /
a person whose assets are worth at least a million of the standard monetary units of his country
Derived forms of millionaire
- millionairess or millionnairess, fem n
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