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Webster 1913 Edition


Millionnaire


Milˊlionˊnaire′

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Noun.
[F.]
Millionaire.

Definition 2024


millionnaire

millionnaire

English

Noun

millionnaire (plural millionnaires)

  1. Archaic spelling of millionaire.
    • 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858:
      The large, smooth, florid millionnaire, dreaming only of senatorial honors, the shouts of the multitude, and the adoration of a party press, cowered like a dog under the lash of the "man of society."
    • 1853, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lucretia, Complete:
      But the state of Dalibard, though prosperous, is not that of the heir to the dead millionnaire.
    • 1914, William Davenport Hulbert, Forest Neighbors:
      He swallowed it, of course, and for the next five minutes he went charging up and down that pond at a great rate, followed by a green glass monster with the name of a millionnaire brewer blown in its side.

French

Etymology

From million + -aire.

Noun

millionnaire m, f (plural millionnaires)

  1. millionaire

Adjective

millionnaire m, f (plural millionnaires)

  1. Very rich

Derived terms