millionnaire

English

Noun

millionnaire (plural millionnaires)

1. Archaic spelling of millionaire.
   • 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     But the state of Dalibard, though prosperous, is not that of the heir to the dead millionnaire.

   • 1914, William Davenport Hulbert, Forest Neighbors^[3]:

     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 and f (plural millionnaires)

1. millionaire

Adjective

millionnaire (masculine and feminine, plural millionnaires)

1. Very rich

Derived terms

• multimillionnaire / archimillionnaire