thousandaire

English

Etymology

From thousand +‎ -aire.

Noun

thousandaire (plural thousandaires)

1. (humorous) Somebody whose wealth is greater than one thousand units of the local currency.
   • 2009 March 13, Clyde Haberman, “The Rich: Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “Obviously, no tears will be shed for the fact that billionaires have gone down in their net worth,” Steve Forbes, the magazine’s editor in chief, told a gathering of thousandaires, more commonly known as journalists.

   • 2020, Kazerad, Katia: Try a few more things, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), July 20 2020

     Plus, you’ve been in Cyrodiil for less than a week and have already become a hundredaire. A high-end hundredaire too, over halfway to thousandaire.

Derived terms

• hundred-thousandaire
• multithousandaire
• ten-thousandaire
• thousandairess