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
Cut to an aerial shot of Clarenden Court, the von Bulow mansion on Millionnaires' Row that might dwarf many small colleges.
Yet how many times in your life have you personally known of them—families who are millionnaires to-day, and beggars to-morrow?
Interrupted | PansyHe was a valued officer, a good executive, and one of the first millionnaires in North America.
The Spanish Pioneers | Charles F. LummisIf the stock be really good, the founders of the enterprise become millionnaires.
Let the multi-millionnaires give away their money to found theological colleges and libraries—my party will have none of it.
Visionaries | James Huneker
And the widow made a little mental prayer that her son's acres might be protected from the millionnaires and other Philistines.
Framley Parsonage | Anthony Trollope
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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