MILLIONAIRES Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

millionaires

noun

plural of millionaire

as in multimillionaires

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

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Recent Examples of millionaires The pair found that about three-quarters of these millionaires started their own businesses, while the vast majority didn't inherit money. — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026 Perhaps not surprising, some of these millionaires have stakes in investment firms or medical, dental, or legal practices. — Eric Zwick, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026 Zidar and Zwick provide another example of Elon Musk losing while Main Street millionaires win. — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026 Ballmer is called out to an extent that one almost never sees when applied to the millionaires and billionaires who own most professional sports teams. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026 Gail Bean and Isaiah John return to their roles as Wanda Bell and Leon Simmons, who are guiding the drug trade into the 1990s as gangsta rap goes mainstream and street thugs become music millionaires. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2026 Those offerings could mint a number of fresh billionaires and scores of millionaires. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026

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Football, after all, provides a level of profile and recognition billionaires don’t get outside their own sector, which can often be a niche.

— James Horncastle, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
By contrast, Nixon is a clear loud voice against the establishment, big corporations and billionaires and for working people, the poor and minorities.

— Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of billionaires

Noun

But, overall, this didn't seem to be primarily a story of rich capitalists investing money and then sitting on their keisters while their capital generated returns for them.

— Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026
Tulloch could command a high salary at another lab, or raise billions from venture capitalists for a startup of his own, like OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever or Google’s Jeff Dean did.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 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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