katrillionaire
English
editEtymology
editFrom katrillion + -aire.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkatrillionaire (plural katrillionaires)
- (informal) An extremely wealthy person.
- 2006, Eliza Minot, The Brambles, Knopf, →ISBN, page 58:
- […] a sort of modern-day Sabrina-esque story where a young woman, Abby (played by the lovely Chloe Eliot), the daughter of a deeply indebted, widowed summer cook in the Hamptons, ends up living happily ever after with a self-made katrillionaire Bill Gates type (but he's handsome, young, and hip) whose life isn't as easy as it sounds, […]
- 2008 October 28, David Segal, “Lost Souls”, in The Washington Post:
- But nowhere else has the cachet-turned-baggage of Greenwich, long a home to blue-blood families (this is where the Bush family dwelled for years) and more recently a haven for Wall Street's new money, such as hedge-fund katrillionaire Steve Cohen.
- 2010, Jacquinita A. Rose, Shhh, Grown Folks Is Talking: The Stuff I Learned from the Kitchen Door, Grown Folks' Publishing, →ISBN, page 102:
- When I am reading I hold the world right here in the palm of my hand. The stars are my fingertips. I am Queen and ruler of all nations. I am the healer of the poor. I am a katrillionaire.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:katrillionaire.