millioned

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English

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Etymology

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From million +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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millioned (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Multiplied by millions; innumerable.
  2. Having millions, as of dollars or people.
    • 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table[1], volume 1, page 35:
      Its supporters are the Southern gentry, — fine fellows, no doubt, but not republicans exactly, as we understand the term, — a few Northern millionnaires more or less thoroughly millioned, who do not represent the real people
    • 1910, William Dean Howells, My Mark Twain, →ISBN, page 75:
      The other was a modestly millioned rich man who was then only beginning to amass the moneys afterward heaped so high, and was still in the condition to be flattered by the condescension of a yet greater millionaire.
    • 1976 March 1, “Leap Year: When Today Becomes Tomorrow”, in The Dispatch (Lexington, NC):
      So go with me on a short timed, multi-millioned mile journey with the earth as it spins neatly on its axis and revolves lazily in its elliptical sweep about the Sun.