millionaire

or mil·lion·naire

[ mil-yuh-nair ]

/ ˌmɪl yəˈnɛər /

noun

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

any very rich person.

Words nearby millionaire

milling, milling machine, millington, million, million electron volts, millionaire, millionairess, millionfold, millionth, milliosmole, millipede

Origin of millionaire

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

OTHER WORDS FROM millionaire

mil·lion·aire·dom, nounnon·mil·lion·aire, noun

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Examples from the Web for millionnaire

Where, but from himself, had his gentleman-son (as the millionnaire proudly held him to be) got that strength of obstinacy?
Phoebe, Junior|Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
The millionnaire is no more tainted by property than the journeyman who works for thirty sous per day.
What is Property?|P. J. Proudhon
"Jim Bradford," the millionnaire repeated, still holding the engineer's hand.
The Last Spike|Cy Warman
There was about five thousand dollars in the bank that day when I went back to the Yards, and I was as proud as a millionnaire.
The Memoirs of an American Citizen|Robert Herrick

Wall Street is the millionnaire's checker-board, but brains direct the moves and make the plays.
Frenzied Finance|Thomas W. Lawson

British Dictionary definitions for millionnaire

millionaire

millionnaire

/ (ˌmɪljəˈnɛə) /

noun

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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