MILLIONAIRE Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

millionaire

noun

Definition of millionaire

as in multimillionaire

a rich person who has at least a million dollars, pounds, etc.

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Recent Examples of millionaire And while billionaires and millionaires are watching their bank accounts surge thanks to appreciating assets, others are scraping by to make ends meet. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 July 2026 New York’s number of millionaires doubled but overall its share compared to other states in the country plummeted, trailing behind Texas, Florida and California, according to the financial think tank Citizens Budget Commission. — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 21 July 2026 These initial public offerings are projected to create 20 new billionaires, while SpaceX’s IPO alone is projected to have made4,400 employees into millionaires. — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 21 July 2026 The pandemic saw a spike in the purchases of second homes in the area by millionaires, motivated—like so many of us—by the promise of privacy and unspoiled natural beauty. — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for millionaire

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Elliott, who turns 42 next week, is seeking public financing to battle against Lamont, a Greenwich multimillionaire who has spent more than $60 million of his own money in four statewide races since 2006.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026
The multimillionaire shared a video of the yacht on Instagram earlier this week.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 June 2026

Definition of multimillionaire

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West Ham said in June, following relegation to the Championship, that Czech billionaire Kretinsky would become the majority shareholder by buying 16 per cent of the Gold family’s shares, but that arrangement fell through.

— Leon Imber, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
In the 2014 sci-fi film Ex Machina, Oscar Isaac played a reclusive AI-tech billionaire dwelling in an architectural masterpiece—the Juvet Landscape Hotel—and a private summer home in Valldal, Norway.

— Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of billionaire

Noun

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
Not to mention a conga line of billionaire tech, real-estate, and finance plutocrats paying feasance to a faux populist in exchange for contracts, pardons, and sundry favors.

— Graydon Carter, Air Mail, 4 July 2026

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