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Definition of millionaire noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

millionaire

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/ˌmɪljəˈneə(r)/
 
/ˌmɪljəˈner/
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  1. a person who has a million pounds, dollars, etc.; a very rich person
    • an oil millionaire
    • She's a millionaire several times over.
    • a millionaire businessman
    see also multimillionaireTopics Moneyb1
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryMillionaire is used before these nouns:
    • businessman, businesswoman
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    Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French millionnaire, from million, probably from Italian milione, from mille ‘thousand’.
See millionaire in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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