katrillionaire

English

Etymology

From katrillion +‎ -aire.

Pronunciation

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Noun

katrillionaire (plural katrillionaires)

1. (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.

Translations

informal: extremely wealthy person

• Finnish: kroisos (fi), pohatta (fi)