billionaire

English

Etymology

From billion +‎ -aire.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌbɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌbɪl.jəˈnɛɚ/

Noun

billionaire (plural billionaires)

1. Somebody whose wealth is greater than one billion (10⁹) dollars, or other currency.

   Synonym: (rare) milliardaire

   • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:

     Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.

Derived terms

• antibillionaire
• billionairedom
• billionairess
• bullionaire
• centibillionaire
• decabillionaire
• demibillionaire
• multibillionaire
• nonbillionaire
• superbillionaire

 

Related terms

• millionaire
• trillionaire

Translations

wealth exceeding one billion (10⁹)

• Arabic: مِلْيَارْدِير m (milyārdīr)
• Armenian: միլիարդատեր (hy) (miliardater)
• Belarusian: мільярдэ́р m (milʹjardér), мільярдэ́рка f (milʹjardérka)
• Burmese: ဘီလီယံနာ (bhiliyamna)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 億萬富翁／亿万富翁 (jik¹ maan⁶ fu³ jung¹)

  Mandarin: 億萬富翁／亿万富翁 (zh) (yìwàn fùwēng)

• Czech: miliardář (cs) m
• Danish: milliardær c
• Dutch: miljardair (nl) m
• Esperanto: miliardulo
• Estonian: miljardär (et)
• Finnish: miljardööri (fi)
• French: milliardaire (fr) m or f
• Georgian: მილიარდერი (miliarderi)
• German: Milliardär (de) m, Milliardärin (de) f
• Greek: δισεκατομμυριούχος (el) m (disekatommyrioúchos)
• Hebrew: מיליארדר (he) m (miliarder), מיליארדרית f (miliarderit)
• Hungarian: milliárdos (hu)
• Icelandic: milljarðamæringur m
• Indonesian: milyader
• Italian: miliardario (it) m
• Japanese: 億万長者 (ja) (おくまんちょうじゃ, okumanchōja)
• Kazakh: миллиардер (milliarder)
• Khmer: អ្នកមានលុយរាប់រយកោដិ (ʼnɑɑkmiənluyrŏəprɔɔykaodeʼ)
• Korean: 억만장자 (ko) (eongmanjangja)
• Macedonian: милијарде́р m (milijardér)
• Mongolian: тэрбумтан (mn) (terbumtan)
• Norwegian: milliardær m
• Persian: میلیاردر (fa) (miliyârder)
• Polish: miliarder (pl) m, miliarderka (pl) f
• Portuguese: bilionário m
• Romanian: miliardar (ro) m, miliardară (ro) f
• Romansch: milliardari m
• Russian: миллиарде́р (ru) m (milliardér), миллиарде́рша (ru) f (milliardérša)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: милијардер m

  Roman: milijarder (sh) m

• Spanish: milmillonario m, multimillonario (es) m, millardario m
• Swahili: bilionea
• Swedish: miljardär (sv) c
• Thai: มหาเศรษฐี (th) (má-hǎa-sèet-tǐi), กุฎุมพี (th) (gù-dum-pii)
• Turkish: milyarder (tr)
• Ukrainian: мільярде́р m (milʹjardér), мільярде́рка f (milʹjardérka)
• Urdu: ارب پتی m (arab patī)
• Vietnamese: tỉ phú