millionaire

English

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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 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
• Mongolian: саятан (mn) ‎(sajatan)
• Norman: millionnaithe m, f
• 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)
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• 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 ‎(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).