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

• millionairedom noun
• nonmillionaire noun
• millionairess noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of millionaire¹

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

Example Sentences

“Instead of trying to scam people out of their hard-earned benefits, we should require millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share into the system.”

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In the pandemic we worried as billionaires fled to Florida; now I fear millionaires fleeing nearby.

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“Five dollars a day and you could retire a millionaire,” he says.

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Some of them are now millionaires many times over, but several said they haven’t had time to spend their new fortunes.

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“This isn’t about being a millionaire investor or betting your savings. This is about something way bigger: the power of the people,” one user wrote on the Reddit forum StocksToBuyToday.

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