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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Millionaire \Mil`lion*aire"\ (?; 277), n. [F. millionnaire.] One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more. [Written also millionnaire.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1821, from French millionnaire (1762); see million. The first in America is said to have been John Jacob Astor (1763-1848).
Wiktionary
n. Somebody whose wealth is greater than one million units of the local currency
WordNet
n. a person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars
Wikipedia
A millionaire is an individual whose net worth or wealth is equal to or exceeds one million units of currency. It can also be a person who owns one million units of currency in a bank account or savings account. Depending on the currency, a certain level of prestige is associated with being a millionaire, which makes that amount of wealth a goal for some, and almost unattainable for others. In countries that use the short scale number naming system, a billionaire is someone who has at least a thousand times a million dollars, euros, or the currency of the given country (e.g. $1,000,000,000). In contrast, a billionaire in countries that use the long scale number naming system would be someone who has at least a million times a million units of currency (e.g. $1,000,000,000,000). There is no evidence that anyone on the planet has achieved the latter in either US dollars or euros. The increasing number of millionaires is partially due to prevailing economics, especially inflation; as the individual value of each unit of currency decreases, achieving a million of these becomes easier. The purchasing power of a million US dollars in 1959 is equivalent to $ in .
Conversely (and historical worth notwithstanding), due to inflation, purchasing power, costs of living and relative currency exchange rates, being millionaires (in terms of respective currency) in Hong Kong or Taiwan may still be considered average, if not poor. Being a millionaire (in Zimbabwean bond coins, abolished since 2009) in Zimbabwe is considered extremely poor.
Millionaire was a Belgian indie rock band led by Tim Vanhamel, drawing on influences from stoner rock, indie and industrial rock music.
Millionaire is a management game originally written for the ZX Spectrum by John Hunt and ported to the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro.
A millionaire is a person whose net worth is at least one million in a relatively high-value unit of currency. It may also refer to:
"(How to Be a) Millionaire" is a song by the British band ABC. It was the first single taken from their 1984 album How to Be a ... Zillionaire!
The single peaked at a modest #49 on the UK Singles Chart, though it fared better in the US where it reached #20 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. The CBS Orchestra played the song for Regis Philbin when he was a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman. Philbin was the former host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
"Millionaire" is a song by American singer-songwriter Kelis, featuring American rapper André 3000. It was released on October 18, 2004 as the third single from Kelis' third studio album, Tasty (2003). The song was written by Kelis and André 3000, the latter of whom also produced it. Like Kelis' previous single " Trick Me", "Millionaire" was not released in the United States. The track is built on a sample of the 1985 song " La Di Da Di" by Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick.
The song peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart, earning Kelis her third consecutive top five hit, while becoming a modest success on the charts internationally. The accompanying music video, directed by Giuseppe Capotondi, does not feature Kelis or André 3000, and instead features children playing the roles of young Kelis and André.
"Millionaire" is a single from English band Beady Eye, released on 2 May 2011.
Millionaire is a game show presented by Marty Whelan. The studio-based show aired on Friday nights as a summer "filler" between 19 May and 1 September 1995.
Usage examples of "millionaire".
Any society that will put Barger in jail and make Al Davis a respectable millionaire at the same time is not a society to be trifled with.
Compare me with one of those rascals who disseminate phossy jaw and lead poisons, compare me with a millionaire who runs a music hall with an eye to feminine talent, or an underwriter, or the common stockbroker.
The bronze man had no means of knowing about the cigars the millionaire and shoe shiner had smoked.
For the first time in his life he saw the point of being a millionaire and suddenly, and also for the first time, he thought that there might be more to this man Spang than he had reckoned with.
The man who was trailing Silk Elverton was Foulkrod Kendall, the millionaire tableware manufacturer!
There are millionaires working for Cotter with undescended testicles and training bras.
What kind of person in a university would target alums who became millionaires?
The blond receptionist had informed Doc Savage that a man named Birmingham Jones had seen the millionaire shortly before Doc himself.
For it was one of her dreams, perhaps the six hundred and seventy-ninth in the series, that one day she would sit at a desk answering innumerable telephone calls with projecting jaw, as millionaires do on the movies, and crushing rivals like blackbeetles in order that, after being reviled by the foolish as a heartless plutocrat, she might hand a gigantic Trust over to the Socialist State.
About a hundred yards from the cenote was a small but elaborate stone pyramid, closely guarded by men with rifles, which had been erected over the bombproof shelter of the American millionaire, Owens.
Her husband, Nicky Brompton, heir to a dukedom, called himself a farmer and omitted to specify that the estates on whose income his family was maintained comprised three thousand arable acres in Gloucestershire and East Anglia, a hundred times as much in Costa Rica with two gold mines beneath, and a district of London where luxury apartments leased by lesser millionaires rubbed buttresses with i92os model tenements built by Brompton Trust.
The attendant on duty at the club desk had noticed nothing strange in the behavior or appearance of the millionaire clubman when he arrived.
If there were justice, ditchdiggers would be millionaires, and ballplayers would be half a paycheck above the poverty level.
Save for a few surface evils he sees nothing wrong in an acquisitive society, with its equation of money and virtue, its pious millionaires and erastian clergymen.
For example, People for the American Way, founded by Hollywood millionaire Norman Lear, advocates the defeat of school voucher programs, the legalization of gay marriage, and the defeat of the USA Patriot Act.