MILLIONAIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does millionaire mean? 

• MILLIONAIRE (noun)
  The noun MILLIONAIRE has 1 sense:

1. a person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars

  Familiarity information: MILLIONAIRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLIONAIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("millionaire" is a kind of...):

have; rich person; wealthy person (a person who possesses great material wealth)

 Context examples 

As far as I can make out, the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So we are to countenance things and people which we detest, merely because we are not belles and millionaires, are we?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

According to your ideas, he, too, must be an immortal millionaire.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Her visit was, I remember, extremely unwelcome to Holmes, for he was immersed at the moment in a very abstruse and complicated problem concerning the peculiar persecution to which John Vincent Harden, the well-known tobacco millionaire, had been subjected.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You are a millionaire in immortality, and a millionaire whose fortune cannot be lost, whose fortune is less perishable than the stars and as lasting as space or time.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself for over twenty years proof against the little god’s arrows, has now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

My own house was an eye-sore, but it was a small eye-sore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a month.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)