millionaire

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French millionnaire.

Noun

millionaire (plural millionaires)

1. Somebody whose wealth is greater than one million units of the local currency

Derived terms

• multimillionaire, supermillionaire, megamillionaire
• shalionaire

Related terms

• billionaire, trillionaire
• (figuratively) zillionaire, bazillionaire, gazillionaire, squillionaire
• million

Derived terms

• millionaire shortbread

Translations

somebody whose wealth is greater than one million

• Albanian: milioner (sq) m
• Arabic: مَلْيُونِير‎ m (malyūnīr)
• Armenian: միլիոնատեր (hy) (milionater)
• Azeri: milyoner
• Belarusian: мільяне́р m (milʹjanjér), мільяне́рка f (milʹjanjérka)
• Bulgarian: милионе́р m (milionér)
• Catalan: milionari m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百萬富翁 (zh), 百万富翁 (bǎiwàn fùwēng)

• Czech: milionář (cs) m
• Danish: millionær
• Dutch: miljonair (nl) m
• Esperanto: milionulo
• Estonian: miljonär (et)
• Finnish: miljonääri (fi)
• French: millionnaire (fr) m, f
• Georgian: მილიონერი (milioneri)
• German: Millionär (de) m, Millionärin (de) f
• Greek: εκατομμυριούχος (el) m (ekatommyrioúchos)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: करोड़पति (hi) m (karoṛpati)
• Hungarian: milliomos (hu)
• Icelandic: milljónamæringur (is) m, milli (is) m
• Indonesian: jutawan (id)
• Irish: milliúnaí m
• Italian: milionario (it) m
• Japanese: 大富豪 (だいふごう, daifugō), 百万長者 (ひゃくまんちょうじゃ, hyakumanchōja)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 백만장자 (ko) (baengmanjangja) (百萬長者 (ko))
• Lao: ເສດຖີເງິນລ້ານ (sēt thī ngœn lān), ເສດຖີ (sēt thī)
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: miljonārs m, miljonāre f
• Lithuanian: milijonierius m

• Macedonian: милионе́р m (milionér)
• Malay: jutawan
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: miljunarju m, miljunarja f
• Mongolian: саятан (mn) (sajatan)
• Norman: millionnaithe m, f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: millionær m

  Nynorsk: millionær m

• Persian: میلیونر‎ (fa) (milyoner)
• Polish: milioner (pl) m, milionerka f
• Portuguese: milionário (pt) m
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: milionar (ro) m, milionară (ro) f
• Russian: миллионе́р (ru) m (millionér), миллионе́рша (ru) f (millionérša)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: милионер m

  Roman: milioner (sh) m

• Slovak: milionár m
• Slovene: milijonar m, milijonarka f
• Spanish: millonario (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: miljonär (sv) c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: เศรษฐี (th) (sàyt-tĕe)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: milyoner (tr)
• Ukrainian: мільйоне́р m (milʹjonér), мільйоне́рка f (milʹjonérka)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: nhà triệu phú
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: מיליאָנער‎ m (milyoner)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

References

“Millionaire” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2017.