millionaire

English

Alternative forms

millionnaire (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from French millionnaire. Reanalyzable as million +‎ -aire.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/
Audio (UK) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪl.jəˈnɛɹ/, /ˈmɪl.jəˌnɛɹ/

Noun

millionaire (plural millionaires)

(strictly) A person whose net worth is at or greater than one million units of the local currency, but less than two million.
(loosely) A person whose net worth is at or greater than one million units of the local currency; a multimillionaire.

Derived terms

centimillionaire
decamillionaire
megamillionaire
millionairedom
millionairehood
millionaire shortbread
Millionaires' Row
millionairess
millionaire's salad
millionairish
millionairism
multimillionaire
mushroom millionaire
nonmillionaire
pentamillionaire
shaleionaire
supermillionaire

Related terms

billionaire, trillionaire, quadrillionaire, centillionaire
(figuratively) zillionaire, bazillionaire, gazillionaire, squillionaire
million

Translations

somebody whose wealth is greater than one million

Albanian: milioner (sq) m
Arabic: مَلْيُونِير‎ m (malyūnīr)
Armenian: միլիոնատեր (hy) (milionater)
Azerbaijani: milyoner
Belarusian: мільяне́р m (milʹjanjér), мільяне́рка f (milʹjanjérka)
Bulgarian: милионе́р m (milionér)
Catalan: milionari (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 百萬富翁／百万富翁 (zh), 百万富翁 (bǎiwàn fùwēng), 巨富 (zh) (jùfù)
Czech: milionář (cs) m
Danish: millionær
Dutch: miljonair (nl) m
Esperanto: milionulo
Estonian: miljonär (et)
Finnish: miljonääri (fi)
French: millionnaire (fr) m or f
Galician: millonario m, millonaria f
Georgian: მილიონერი (milioneri)
German: Millionär (de) m, Millionärin (de) f
Greek: εκατομμυριούχος (el) m (ekatommyrioúchos)
Greenlandic: millionæri, millioneeri
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: מִילְיוֹנֶר‎
Hindi: करोड़पति (hi) m (karoṛpati) (greater than 10 million)
Hungarian: milliomos (hu)
Icelandic: milljónamæringur (is) m, milli (is) m
Indonesian: jutawan (id)
Irish: milliúnaí m
Italian: milionario (it) m
Japanese: 大富豪 (ja) (だいふごう, daifugō), 百万長者 (ひゃくまんちょうじゃ, hyakumanchōja)
Javanese: please add this translation if you can
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 백만장자(百萬長者) (ko) (baengmanjangja)
Lao: ເສດຖີເງິນລ້ານ (sēt thī ngœn lān), ເສດຖີ (sēt thī)
Latin: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: miljonārs m, miljonāre f
Lithuanian: milijonierius m
Macedonian: милионе́р m (milionér)
Malay: jutawan (ms)
Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
Maltese: miljunarju m, miljunarja f
Mongolian: саятан (mn) (sajatan)
Norman: millionnaithe m or f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: millionær m
Nynorsk: millionær m
Persian: میلیونر‎ (fa) (milyoner)
Polish: milioner (pl) m, milionerka (pl) f
Portuguese: milionário (pt) m
Punjabi: ਮਿਲੀਅਨਏਅਰ (milīanaēara)
Romanian: milionar (ro) m, milionară (ro) f
Russian: миллионе́р (ru) m (millionér), миллионе́рша (ru) f (millionérša)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: милионер m
Roman: milioner (sh) m
Slovak: milionár m
Slovene: milijonar m, milijonarka f
Spanish: millonario (es) m, millonaria (es) f
Swahili: milionea
Swedish: miljonär (sv) c
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: please add this translation if you can
Thai: เศรษฐี (th) (sèet-tǐi)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: milyoner (tr)
Ukrainian: мільйоне́р m (milʹjonér), мільйоне́рка f (milʹjonérka)
Uyghur: مىليونېر‎ (milyonër)
Vietnamese: nhà triệu phú
Welsh: miliwnydd m
Yiddish: מיליאָנער‎ m (milyoner)
Zulu: please add this translation if you can

References

Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “Millionaire”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.