Millionaire
[mɪljə'neə] or [,mɪljə'nɛr]
Definition
(noun.) a person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars.
Editor: Philip--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more.
Checker: Micawber
Examples
- Nobody nowadays had Colonial houses except the millionaire grocers of the suburbs. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- As far as I can make out, the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- So we are to countenance things and people which we detest, merely because we are not belles and millionaires, are we? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Checker: Roy