millionaire

noun

Definition of millionairenext
as in multimillionaire
a rich person who has at least a million dollars, pounds, etc.

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Recent Examples of millionaire Nearly 1 million people became millionaires in 2025, largely thanks to a thriving stock market, according to a new report by UBS. — Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 2 July 2026 While airport slot machines are known for having tighter payouts than the mega-resorts on the Las Vegas Strip, LAS has a history of minting unexpected millionaires. — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026 The young millionaires continued successfully appealing to tweens and teens, many of whom grew up watching the Olsens, and managed to turn their company into a billion-dollar empire, all while attending college at New York University. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 30 June 2026 That puts her in the club of four other millionaire authors on the bench – Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 30 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for millionaire
Recent Examples of Synonyms for millionaire
  1. multimillionaire
  2. billionaire
  3. zillionaire
  4. plutocrat
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  • The multimillionaire shared a video of the yacht on Instagram earlier this week.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 June 2026
  • One prominent advocate is Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary, who is an investor in a giant data center in Utah called Stratos.
    — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 10 June 2026
Definition of multimillionaire
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  • The obscene pay of CEOs, growing 20 times as fast as workers’ pay last year, and the obscene wealth in the tech world, with money cascading into the hands of greedy billionaires who lack empathy or even noblesse oblige.
    — Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
  • General Atlantic was founded in 1980 by the late billionaire philanthropist Chuck Feeney, who cofounded Duty Free Shoppers with Robert Miller.
    — Robert Olsen, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of billionaire
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  • But the Vanderbilt Commodores were actually named for zillionaire 19th century shipping magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, the man who endowed the university.
    — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The platinum blond computer chip zillionaire was no match for 007!
    — EW.com, EW.com, 24 May 2025
Definition of zillionaire
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  • The issue is the policy infrastructure that allows people like Musk to become not rich, not super-rich, but plutocrat-rich.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
  • Then the plutocrats circled their yachts.
    — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Definition of plutocrat

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