单词 | milliardaire |
释义 | milliardairen. Now rare. A person possessing a thousand million pounds (dollars, etc.); an immensely wealthy person. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person > person who has large amount of money jingle-boya1640 four-millioneer1667 plum1709 millionary1786 millionaire1795 money bag1820 millionista1843 trimillionaire1848 multimillionaire1858 billionaire1861 millioner1865 trillionaire1873 quadrillionairea1876 thousandaire1896 milliardaire1897 multibillionaire1906 zillionaire1926 multi1950 mega-millionaire1968 squillionaire1979 1897 F. Y. Edgeworth in Econ. Jrnl. 7 559 For the millionaire—or rather..the milliardaire—the possession of his income signifies no more than a cipher, the increase of which has no longer any influence on his consumption. 1924 New Internat. Year Bk. for Year 1923 270/2 A South-American milliardaire who can have all he wants. 1927 Spectator 23 Apr. 720 Including..a respectable proportion of the Royal Families and aristocracy of most European countries, besides a sufficiency of ‘milliardaires’ from both Americas. 1961 C. Olson Coll. Poems (1987) 540 What the Milliardaire had done to the Maid. 1998 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 1 Apr. 7 How did these milliardaires get where they are today? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1897 |
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