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

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.

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