billionaire

English

Etymology

From billion +‎ -aire.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌbɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/
Audio (UK) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌbɪl.jəˈnɛɚ/

Noun

billionaire (plural billionaires)

Somebody whose wealth is greater than one billion (10⁹) dollars, or other currency.
- 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
  Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
Synonym: (rare) milliardaire

Derived terms

antibillionaire
billionairess
centibillionaire
decabillionaire
demibillionaire
multibillionaire
nonbillionaire

Related terms

millionaire
trillionaire

Translations

wealth exceeding one billion (10⁹)

Arabic: مِلْيَارْدِير‎ m (milyārdīr)
Armenian: միլիարդատեր (hy) (miliardater)
Belarusian: мільярдэ́р m (milʹjardér), мільярдэ́рка f (milʹjardérka)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 億萬富翁, 亿万富翁 (jik¹ maan⁶ fu³ jung¹)
Mandarin: 億萬富翁 (zh), 亿万富翁 (yìwàn fùwēng)
Czech: miliardář (cs) m
Danish: milliardær c
Dutch: miljardair (nl) m
Esperanto: miliardulo
Estonian: miljardär (et)
Finnish: miljardööri (fi)
French: milliardaire (fr) m or f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Milliardär (de) m, Milliardärin (de) f
Greek: δισεκατομμυριούχος (el) m (disekatommyrioúchos)
Hebrew: מיליארדר‎ (he) m (miliarder), מיליארדרית‎ f (miliarderit)
Hungarian: milliárdos (hu)
Icelandic: milljarðamæringur m
Indonesian: milyader
Italian: miliardario (it) m
Japanese: 億万長者 (ja) (おくまんちょうじゃ, okumanchōja)
Kazakh: миллиардер (milliarder)
Khmer: អ្នកមានលុយរាប់រយកោដិ (ʼnɑɑkmiənluyrŏəprɔɔykaodeʼ)
Korean: 억만장자 (ko) (eongmanjangja)
Macedonian: милијарде́р m (milijardér)
Mongolian: тэрбумтан (mn) (terbumtan)
Norwegian: milliardær m
Persian: میلیاردر‎ (fa) (miliyârder)
Polish: miliarder (pl) m, miliarderka (pl) f
Portuguese: bilionário m
Romanian: miliardar (ro) m, miliardară (ro) f
Romansch: milliardari m
Russian: миллиарде́р (ru) m (milliardér), миллиарде́рша (ru) f (milliardérša)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: милијардер m
Roman: milijarder (sh) m
Spanish: milmillonario m, multimillonario (es) m, millardario m
Swahili: bilionea
Swedish: miljardär (sv) c
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: milyarder (tr)
Ukrainian: мільярде́р m (milʹjardér), мільярде́рка f (milʹjardérka)
Urdu: ارب پتی‎ m (arab patī)
Vietnamese: nhà tỉ phú