zillionaire

[zil-yuh-nair]

noun

Informal.

1. a person of incalculably great wealth.

Word History and Origins

Origin of zillionaire¹

First recorded in 1945–50; zillion + (million)aire

Example Sentences

Except for publicly traded securities, it’s very difficult to figure out what a zillionaire’s assets are worth.

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Occasionally she posts a “snapshot” of herself posed alongside it and a neon-orange G-Wagon owned by her zillionaire half sister Kylie Jenner.

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If Palm Beach was once a sleepy winter resort of the moneyed Eastern elite, it is now a kind of “zillionaire bedlam,” Mr. Stolman said.

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The question is set within a tangle of tightening budgets, greedy politicians, ill-tempered bureaucrats and a creepy zillionaire media darling who is insinuating himself, for unknown reasons, into Slough House’s affairs.

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Meanwhile, zillionaires claim enormous tax deductions for donating expensive art to their own private “museums” located on their own property.

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