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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person whose wealth amounts to at least a million dollars, pounds, or the equivalent in other currency.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A man worth a million dollars, pounds, francs, etc.; an owner of a million or of millions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Somebody whose wealth is greater than one million units of the local currency

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French millionnaire, from million, million, from Old French milion; see million.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From French millionnaire.

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