millionnaire
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]millionnaire (plural millionnaires)
- Archaic spelling of millionaire.
- 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858[1]:
- The large, smooth, florid millionnaire, dreaming only of senatorial honors, the shouts of the multitude, and the adoration of a party press, cowered like a dog under the lash of the "man of society."
- 1853, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lucretia, Complete[2]:
- But the state of Dalibard, though prosperous, is not that of the heir to the dead millionnaire.
- 1914, William Davenport Hulbert, Forest Neighbors[3]:
- He swallowed it, of course, and for the next five minutes he went charging up and down that pond at a great rate, followed by a green glass monster with the name of a millionnaire brewer blown in its side.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]millionnaire m or f by sense (plural millionnaires)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: millionaire
- → Portuguese: milionário
- → Turkish: milyoner
Adjective
[edit]millionnaire (plural millionnaires)
- Very rich
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “millionnaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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