billionaire

noun

Definition of billionairenext
as in millionaire
a rich person who has at least a billion dollars, pounds, etc.

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Recent Examples of billionaire Opposition campaigns to the wealth tax as well as the two countermeasures have received enormous donations from several of the state’s billionaires. — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026 Griffin is not the only South Florida billionaire contributing to Donalds’ campaign. — Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2026 Cofield was sentenced to 11 years in prison in January 2024 for stealing $11 million from a Hollywood billionaire while Cofield was incarcerated in Georgia’s Special Management Unit, designed to be the state’s most secure prison. — Danny Robbins, AJC.com, 23 Oct. 2026 The billionaire has also invested roughly $1 billion in Skydance, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly. — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for billionaire
Recent Examples of Synonyms for billionaire
  1. millionaire
  2. multimillionaire
  3. multibillionaire
  4. plutocrat
Noun
  • Her positive testimonial was echoed by a downer-loving millionaire who attended with her brilliant and terrifyingly thin mother for her 70th birthday.
    — Kate Berlant, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Choosing to rent as a millionaire, however, is different from renting because buying is out of reach.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of millionaire
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  • Among his fans and friends were the First Lady Dolley Madison, Sir Walter Scott, and John Jacob Astor, New York City’s first multimillionaire.
    — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Lottery officials have not yet announced whether a ticket matched all six numbers in the latest drawing, leaving players across the country waiting to see if a new multimillionaire has been made.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of multimillionaire
Noun
  • The Ellison family, through the equity investment from Larry Ellison (David’s multibillionaire father), holds the largest equity stake in Skydance.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
  • At the time, Altman was president of the startup accelerator Y Combinator, famous for helping launch companies like Airbnb and DoorDash, while Musk was already a multibillionaire and was running Tesla along with SpaceX simultaneously.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 13 July 2026
Definition of multibillionaire
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  • Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The provenance of an otherwise unknown plutocrat probably does not.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of plutocrat

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