millionaire

Or mil·lion·naire

[mil-yuh-nair]

noun

1. a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more in some unit of currency, as dollars.

2. any very rich person.

millionaire

/ ˌmɪljəˈnɛə /

noun

1. a person whose assets are worth at least a million of the standard monetary units of his country

Other Word Forms

• millionairess noun
• millionairedom noun
• nonmillionaire noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of millionaire¹

1820–30; < French millionnaire, equivalent to million million + -aire -ary

Example Sentences

I told my dad that I was going to be a millionaire by 30, have $100 million by 40 and a billion by 50.

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At a dinner on Fifth Avenue where Churchill was the guest of honor, Mitchell, trying to maintain his usual bonhomie, stood up and offered a toast: “To my fellow former millionaires.”

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This isn’t a labor dispute where the league and its ownership can sit back and hope public sentiment turns on millionaire athletes.

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“They’re millionaires, these Jews!” he hears them say, as they careen with him to Gaza in a stolen car.

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She also said millionaires should be stripped of the state pension - and payments increased to the least well-off pensioners.

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