sextillionaire

English

Etymology

From sextillion +‎ -aire.

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Noun

sextillionaire (plural sextillionaires)

1. Somebody whose wealth is greater than one sextillion units of the local currency.
   • 1871 November 19, “Train. A Second Characteristic Talk at Masonic Hall.”, in Republican Banner‎^[1], volume 58, number 275, Nashville, Tenn., column 3:

     He’s the Credit Mobilier; the Credit Foncier; the prospective sextillionaire; the next President of the United States; the embodiment of Internationale; a huge Syndicate; a blase traveler, who has seen this little world, and who aspires to a jaunt over Saturn and adjacent planets.

   • 1884 August 30, “Country Fairs”, in The Cecil Whig‎^[2], volume XLIII, number 2,168 (whole), Elkton, Md.:

     They supply the field for ambition and for amusement to a large majority of people, for it is a fact which we are apt to forget that the American nation is not a handful of politicians or journalists, nor yet the baker’s dozen of sextillionaires, nor even the women young men in the large cities who lead the fashion, but the innumerable small farmers, the mechanics and the gentry of small inland towns.

   • 1886, “Fir Tree Bower”, in A Boston Girl; a Story of Boston, Bar Harbor, and Paris, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Belford, Clarke & Co., page 110:

     My husband pointed her out to me first as the daughter of the great Baltimore sextillionaire.

   • 1905 April 9, “Letters the Insane Write. Large Projects That Occupy the Minds of the Demented Are Put Down on Paper.”, in The Pittsburg Post, Pittsburgh, Pa., page 7:

     I am the only sextillionaire in Eternity.

   • 1916 May 10, “The Easiest Way of Raising Money”, in The Decatur Herald, volume 35, number 215, Decatur, Ill., page 6:

     The editor of the New York Independent on receipt of such a chain letter written in behalf of an injured railroad man turned it over to an expert accountant, who discovered that if every other branch of the letter had gone as far as that received by the editor, the employe in question would be a “sextillionaire,” possessing more wealth by far than the total estimated wealth of the globe.

   • 1929 November, “Human Behavior”, in James K. Hall, editor, Southern Medicine and Surgery, volume XCI, number 11, Charlotte, N.C., section “Psychiatry Outside the Walls”, page 804, column 1:

     One of the patients, in the early stages of paresis, addressed the assemblage, and in the time allotted to him he was unable to portray fully his conception of his wealth and his own personal puissance, so great were his grandiose ideas. He had become a billionaire, a trillionaire, a sextillionaire; he had thousands of wives, millions of children, and in an ordinary day through the work of a million men, each with a million hands, he had constructed a concrete bridge across the Atlantic.

   • 1993, Arthur B. Hancock, Kathleen J. Brugger, “The Problem With Having It All”, in The Game of God: Recovering Your True Identity, Humans Anonymous Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 21:

     As a sextillionaire, it would soon be absolutely impossible for you to experience anticipation or longing for anything with a price tag. Price could literally never be an object.

   • 2002, Robley E. George, Socioeconomic Democracy: An Advanced Socioeconomic System (Praeger Studies on the 21st Century), Praeger, →ISBN, page 84:

     Democratically set bounds on wealth, that is to say, a maximum allowable wealth limit and a guaranteed income, both democratically set, will be established inasmuch as not doing so would lead to an absurdity. For without those bounds, just as we once had millionaires and hungry people, and we now have billionaires and hungry people, so we would eventually have (if mankind survived) trillionaires and hungry people, quadrillionaires and hungry people, quintillionaires and hungry people, sextillionaires and hungry people, septillionaires and hungry people, octillionaires and hungry people, nonillionaires and hungry people, ad infinitum and ad nauseam.

   • 2003, James Reiss, Riff on Six: New and Selected Poems, Salt Publishing, →ISBN, page 120:

     Or will you find me now sans final answer, sans cigar, neither a sextillionaire nor a master of dactylic hexameter, while the summer solstice lengthens languidly, & we sit on your patio to watch the sixth-month sky aglow?

   • 2011, Morgan Tsvangirai, Morgan Tsvangirai: At the Deep End, Eye Books:

     Queues of extremely poor millionaires, billionaires, trillionaires, quadrillionaires and sextillionaires - some with even more worthless bank notes - formed everywhere in Zimbabwe because hyper-inflation eroded the value of the bearer-cheques every hour.

   • 2011, Trade Policy Review Zimbabwe 2011, the World Trade Organization; Bernan Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 98:

     The financial sector fell back “into territories of indiscipline and general malaise” with inflation rocketing to 5 billion per cent, and people becoming instant “multi-sextillionaires” from doing nothing other than stringing-up “connections”.