Other forms: millionaires
A millionaire is somebody whose wealth runs to seven figures. A self-made millionaire, become a millionaire, millionaire's row.
It once meant enormous wealth and now means owning a house in a southern English city, which is inflation doing its work on a word. Wealth is counted as assets rather than income, so most millionaires do not feel like one.
1nounmillionaireSomebody whose wealth runs to seven figures.
“After selling his company, he became a millionaire at thirty.”
millionaire is a person.
French millionnaire comes from million, from Italian milione, a great thousand.
French
millionnaire
English, today
millionaire
Borrowed from French millionnaire. From French millionnaire. by surface analysis, million + -aire.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA