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 Acton has highlighted affordability messaging on the campaign trail, seeking to portray Ramaswamy as an out-of-touch billionaire, and attacking him for his wealth. — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 10 July 2026 Miami is changing, with waterfront luxury and billionaire property purchases. — Miami Herald, 10 July 2026 The company was founded by the famously private Chinese billionaire Chris Xu more than two decades ago in Nanjing. — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 10 July 2026 Lastly, the Wall Street Journal is owned by billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his family. — Andrew Lack, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for billionaire
Recent Examples of Synonyms for billionaire
  1. millionaire
  2. multimillionaire
  3. multibillionaire
  4. plutocrat
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  • Dwyer and Pool’s clients include eight families each with net worth of more than $1 billion and tech founders who are millionaires and have private stock worth another hundreds of millions.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026
  • For a brief time, two different millionaire-tax questions were competing for one of the city’s few available ballot slots.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026
Definition of millionaire
Noun
  • 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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  • But Blue Origin has drawn parallels, with its multibillionaire founder (Jeff Bezos) and its own grandiose ideas.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
  • French Gates was there to see how the clinic is incorporating mental health services to help people like Brooks, whose baby was busy playing with the multibillionaire’s notebook.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 4 June 2026
Definition of multibillionaire
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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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