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.
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 is no small solace, no doubt, that Bloomberg has made both Winkler and Doctoroff millionaires several times over.
Dressed in a slick black suit, Chapman discovers, say, how people come to be millionaires.
Buffalo has been growing again, but it does not have 370,000 millionaires like New York City has.
There are more millionaires per capita than anywhere in Britain.
Scotland’s ‘Yes’ Campaign and the Myth of Scottish Equality | Noah Caldwell | September 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere may be no millionaires among the Vols of that era, but there are few slackers.
Football Great Bob Suffridge Wanders Through the End Zone of Life | Paul Hemphill | September 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
"They said at Ritz's that he was one of the young millionaires, well known already in America," the fat woman reflected aloud.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonI know of one such club in which almost all the members are millionaires.
As A Chinaman Saw Us | AnonymousThe homes of the millionaires are disguised as churches, as mosques, as medieval castles.
American Sketches | Charles WhibleyThis, then, is the tragedy of the American multi-millionaires.
American Sketches | Charles WhibleyOf all millionaires, Mr Carnegie is at once the least picturesque and the most dangerous.
American Sketches | Charles Whibley
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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