millionairen.adj.

Brit.

/ˌmɪljəˈnɛː/, U.S.

/ˌmɪljəˈnɛ(ə)r/,

/ˈmɪljəˌnɛ(ə)r/

Forms: 1700s– millionaire, 1800s– millionnaire.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French millionnaire.

Etymology: < French millionnaire, noun (early 18th cent. or earlier as millionaire ) and adjective (1740) < million million n. + -aire -ary suffix¹. Compare earlier millionary n. and adj.

A. n.

A person whose assets are worth at least a million pounds (dollars, etc.); a person of great wealth. In later use also (more loosely): a person who earns at least one million pounds (dollars, etc.) a year.

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

1795 Times 19 Oct. 2/4 A certain Millionaire and his absurd jealousies are the talk of all the world.

1800 tr. L. S. Mercier New Picture Paris II. cliv. 94 The mantua-maker who had offered her silver thimble, gave more in fact than the millionaire.

1816 Ld. Byron Let. 23 June (1976) V. 80 He is still worth at least 50-000 pds—being what is called here [sc. Evian] a ‘Millionaire’ that is in Francs & such Lilliputian coinage.

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. i. ix. 56 Were I the son of a Millionaire, or a noble, I might have all.

1850 E. Bennett Oliver Goldfinch ix. 53/2 He was from the fashionable circles of New York, the son of a millionaire.

1853 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. xiv. 254 Mrs. Stowe, from the poorest of the poor, is become quite a millionaire.

1886 tr. K. Marx & F. Engels Manifesto Communists 8 The small middle class, the artisans, merchants, mechanics, shopkeepers, and farmers, are all doomed to fall into the ranks of the Proletariat, because their small capital cannot compete with that of the millionaire.

1904 J. London Sea-wolf ix. 89 You are a millionnaire in immortality, and a millionnaire whose fortune cannot be lost.

1963 ‘D. Cory’ Hammerhead iii. 47 He's a peseta millionaire, isn't he?

1987 USA Today 21 Oct. 1/3 Away from trading floors and millionaires, the panic was tempered by disbelief.

2012 P. D. Smith City vi. 216 It was a lucrative business, with many merchants becoming millionaires. But earning such great riches came at a personal cost.

B. adj.

Having assets worth at least a million pounds (dollars, etc.); of or characteristic of a millionaire. In later use also (more loosely): that earns at least one million pounds (dollars, etc.) a year.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective] > having large amount of money

pecuniousc1400

moneyed1457

well-moneyed1479

purse-full1600

pursy1602

flush1603

moneyful1604

moneyfied1620

millioned1747

millionary1816

millionaire1864

millionairish1874

coiny1891

multimillionaire1893

financialized1898

stakey1919

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > [adjective] > other types of town or city

spiry1744

steepled1837

timbery1859

millionaire1864

steeple-roofedc1870

congested district1883

twinned1957

Motopian1961

1864 J. S. Le Fanu Wylder's Hand III. i. 10 Sparks, the millionaire clothier..was sitting in the pew nearly opposite.

1893 Temple Bar July 322 Millionaire cheesemongers who dwell h-less in the feudal castles of the poor.

1912 C. Rowley Fifty Years of Work without Wages 146 The crazy rage for indifferent old masters at ruinous prices will wear itself out, in spite of millionaire stupidity.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 59/1 Bloomsbury and Chelsea were crowded with artist apes, millionaire bohemians.

1974 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 16 Aug. 19 Polocrosse was far from being a poor cousin of the better known millionaire sport of polo.

1993 Guardian 20 Oct. i. 2/3 A prostitute was jailed for 12 months yesterday for blackmailing a millionaire businessman.

2003 J. Bodley Power of Scale viii. 225 A savings of $484,000 for a millionaire income and of $1,200 for a $10,000 income.

Compounds

C1. Compounds of the noun in the genitive.

millionaire's defence n. British Law colloquial an argument presented by a wealthy defendant in a divorce settlement case to the effect that a full declaration of assets is not required, since the defendant can afford to pay a former spouse any reasonable amount set by the court.

ΚΠ

1986 Law Rep.: Family Div. 197 An application for detailed discovery of the husband's sources of wealth..was successfully resisted..on the basis of what has come to be known colloquially in the profession as the ‘millionaire's defence’.

1992 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Aug. 27 The only way full disclosure can be avoided is if one raises the so-called ‘millionaire's defence’ in which they essentially say: ‘I'm so rich the court can make any reasonable order’.

1998 N.Y. Law Jrnl. (Nexis) 29 June 7 The husband had adopted the ‘millionaire's defence’, presently accepted in England: he said he could well afford to pay any reasonable amounts awarded by the court.

Millionaires' Mile n. (also millionaire's mile) originally U.S. a street or area renowned for the wealth of its inhabitants and the high value of its properties (cf. Millionaires' Row n.).

ΚΠ

1899 World 6 July 5/1 The importance and magnitude of the business done on upper 5th ave., in the millionaires' mile and a half.]

1904 Washington Post 6 Nov. 9/4 On the other side is Millionaires' Mile, that part of Fifth Avenue, from Fiftieth street to Seventy-second on the east side stand the homes of the richest men in the world.

1977 Daily Tel. 26 Nov. 15 A house..is to be built for an estimated £5 million in London's ‘millionaire's mile’, The Bishop's Avenue, Hampstead.

1993 I. L. Allen City in Slang ix. 235 The heart of New York's extended Millionaires' Row was at one stage of its development more than a mile in length and, so, was also called Millionaires' Mile.

Millionaires' Row n. (also millionaire's row) originally U.S. a street or area containing the residences of very rich people; also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > row or street of buildings > types of

Park Lane1847

mean street1861

Millionaires' Row1894

stockbroker belt1960

Coronation Street1962

1894 W. T. Stead Chicago To-day i. 3 It is a massive fortress of brown stone, standing in Michigan Avenue within gunshot of the Millionaire's Row.

1908 E. B. Jennings People & their Property i. 10 In New York City, on Fifth Avenue, beginning at about Fifty-ninth Street, is Millionaires' Row; probably the most remarkable thing of its kind on this Earth. These men think nothing of paying one million dollars for a residence.

1917 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 22 473 A new region is a fascinating gamble, since the discovery of rare minerals or an outlet for ore, coal, or lumber..is sure to lift some prospectors or settlers into millionaires' row.

1950 ‘J. Guthrie’ Is this what I Wanted? iii. 56 Charles drove off past the park, the Broad Walk and Millionaire's Row.

1972 Guardian 19 Dec. 11/1 My Gozan friend had ragged, empty pockets..but he lived on millionaires' row.

1990 Sun (Brisbane) 3 May 17/1 Redlands Shire Council has created a ‘millionaire's row’ by ear-marking all future residential land for prestige acreage blocks only.

millionaire's salad n. originally New Zealand (a dish of or containing) the heart of a palm, esp. the nikau.

ΚΠ

1982 D. Burton Two Hundred Years N.Z. Food & Cookery 7 Succulent and sweet to the taste, nikau heart later became known as ‘millionaire's salad’ because the tree dies when the heart is removed.

1999 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 12 Feb. 29 Called ‘Millionaire's Salad’ in the Seychelle Islands, this salad is based on fresh palm hearts which grow wild on the islands.

millionaire's shortbread n. originally and chiefly Scottish shortbread covered with a layer of caramel and topped with chocolate, typically served cut into small squares.

ΚΠ

1990 C. MacDonald Claire MacDonald's Scotl. (1996) 144 Chocolate toffee shortbread..also known as millionaire's shortbread.

2000 Scotl. on Sunday (Electronic ed.) 27 Feb. When I worked in an upmarket caf in the years before the advent of espresso bars, a favourite was the rich, aptly named millionaire's shortbread. It seems to have survived the vagaries of fashion and found its way on to the coolest counters.

C2. Compounds of the adjective.

millionaire city n. = million city n. at million adj. and n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1936 C. B. Fawcett in B. Salamon & K. Kuchar Mélanges de Géogr. offerts à V. S̨vambera 52 A ‘millionaire-city’ is to be understood as a conurbation which contains at least one million inhabitants.

1958 Geography 43 258 The emergence of millionaire cities and even five-million cities in tropical countries is now widespread and continuing.

2000 Financial Times (Nexis) 11 Jan. 26 Many of the world's largest cities have satellite ‘millionaire’ cities within one urban area.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	millionaire
释义	millionairen.adj. Brit. /ˌmɪljəˈnɛː/, U.S. /ˌmɪljəˈnɛ(ə)r/, /ˈmɪljəˌnɛ(ə)r/ Forms: 1700s– millionaire, 1800s– millionnaire. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French millionnaire. Etymology: < French millionnaire, noun (early 18th cent. or earlier as millionaire ) and adjective (1740) < million million n. + -aire -ary suffix¹. Compare earlier millionary n. and adj. A. n. A person whose assets are worth at least a million pounds (dollars, etc.); a person of great wealth. In later use also (more loosely): a person who earns at least one million pounds (dollars, etc.) a year. 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 1795 Times 19 Oct. 2/4 A certain Millionaire and his absurd jealousies are the talk of all the world. 1800 tr. L. S. Mercier New Picture Paris II. cliv. 94 The mantua-maker who had offered her silver thimble, gave more in fact than the millionaire. 1816 Ld. Byron Let. 23 June (1976) V. 80 He is still worth at least 50-000 pds—being what is called here [sc. Evian] a ‘Millionaire’ that is in Francs & such Lilliputian coinage. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. i. ix. 56 Were I the son of a Millionaire, or a noble, I might have all. 1850 E. Bennett Oliver Goldfinch ix. 53/2 He was from the fashionable circles of New York, the son of a millionaire. 1853 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. xiv. 254 Mrs. Stowe, from the poorest of the poor, is become quite a millionaire. 1886 tr. K. Marx & F. Engels Manifesto Communists 8 The small middle class, the artisans, merchants, mechanics, shopkeepers, and farmers, are all doomed to fall into the ranks of the Proletariat, because their small capital cannot compete with that of the millionaire. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf ix. 89 You are a millionnaire in immortality, and a millionnaire whose fortune cannot be lost. 1963 ‘D. Cory’ Hammerhead iii. 47 He's a peseta millionaire, isn't he? 1987 USA Today 21 Oct. 1/3 Away from trading floors and millionaires, the panic was tempered by disbelief. 2012 P. D. Smith City vi. 216 It was a lucrative business, with many merchants becoming millionaires. But earning such great riches came at a personal cost. B. adj. Having assets worth at least a million pounds (dollars, etc.); of or characteristic of a millionaire. In later use also (more loosely): that earns at least one million pounds (dollars, etc.) a year. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective] > having large amount of money pecuniousc1400 moneyed1457 well-moneyed1479 purse-full1600 pursy1602 flush1603 moneyful1604 moneyfied1620 millioned1747 millionary1816 millionaire1864 millionairish1874 coiny1891 multimillionaire1893 financialized1898 stakey1919 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > [adjective] > other types of town or city spiry1744 steepled1837 timbery1859 millionaire1864 steeple-roofedc1870 congested district1883 twinned1957 Motopian1961 1864 J. S. Le Fanu Wylder's Hand III. i. 10 Sparks, the millionaire clothier..was sitting in the pew nearly opposite. 1893 Temple Bar July 322 Millionaire cheesemongers who dwell h-less in the feudal castles of the poor. 1912 C. Rowley Fifty Years of Work without Wages 146 The crazy rage for indifferent old masters at ruinous prices will wear itself out, in spite of millionaire stupidity. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 59/1 Bloomsbury and Chelsea were crowded with artist apes, millionaire bohemians. 1974 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 16 Aug. 19 Polocrosse was far from being a poor cousin of the better known millionaire sport of polo. 1993 Guardian 20 Oct. i. 2/3 A prostitute was jailed for 12 months yesterday for blackmailing a millionaire businessman. 2003 J. Bodley Power of Scale viii. 225 A savings of $484,000 for a millionaire income and of $1,200 for a $10,000 income. Compounds C1. Compounds of the noun in the genitive. millionaire's defence n. British Law colloquial an argument presented by a wealthy defendant in a divorce settlement case to the effect that a full declaration of assets is not required, since the defendant can afford to pay a former spouse any reasonable amount set by the court. ΚΠ 1986 Law Rep.: Family Div. 197 An application for detailed discovery of the husband's sources of wealth..was successfully resisted..on the basis of what has come to be known colloquially in the profession as the ‘millionaire's defence’. 1992 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Aug. 27 The only way full disclosure can be avoided is if one raises the so-called ‘millionaire's defence’ in which they essentially say: ‘I'm so rich the court can make any reasonable order’. 1998 N.Y. Law Jrnl. (Nexis) 29 June 7 The husband had adopted the ‘millionaire's defence’, presently accepted in England: he said he could well afford to pay any reasonable amounts awarded by the court. Millionaires' Mile n. (also millionaire's mile) originally U.S. a street or area renowned for the wealth of its inhabitants and the high value of its properties (cf. Millionaires' Row n.). ΚΠ 1899 World 6 July 5/1 The importance and magnitude of the business done on upper 5th ave., in the millionaires' mile and a half.] 1904 Washington Post 6 Nov. 9/4 On the other side is Millionaires' Mile, that part of Fifth Avenue, from Fiftieth street to Seventy-second on the east side stand the homes of the richest men in the world. 1977 Daily Tel. 26 Nov. 15 A house..is to be built for an estimated £5 million in London's ‘millionaire's mile’, The Bishop's Avenue, Hampstead. 1993 I. L. Allen City in Slang ix. 235 The heart of New York's extended Millionaires' Row was at one stage of its development more than a mile in length and, so, was also called Millionaires' Mile. Millionaires' Row n. (also millionaire's row) originally U.S. a street or area containing the residences of very rich people; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > row or street of buildings > types of Park Lane1847 mean street1861 Millionaires' Row1894 stockbroker belt1960 Coronation Street1962 1894 W. T. Stead Chicago To-day i. 3 It is a massive fortress of brown stone, standing in Michigan Avenue within gunshot of the Millionaire's Row. 1908 E. B. Jennings People & their Property i. 10 In New York City, on Fifth Avenue, beginning at about Fifty-ninth Street, is Millionaires' Row; probably the most remarkable thing of its kind on this Earth. These men think nothing of paying one million dollars for a residence. 1917 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 22 473 A new region is a fascinating gamble, since the discovery of rare minerals or an outlet for ore, coal, or lumber..is sure to lift some prospectors or settlers into millionaires' row. 1950 ‘J. Guthrie’ Is this what I Wanted? iii. 56 Charles drove off past the park, the Broad Walk and Millionaire's Row. 1972 Guardian 19 Dec. 11/1 My Gozan friend had ragged, empty pockets..but he lived on millionaires' row. 1990 Sun (Brisbane) 3 May 17/1 Redlands Shire Council has created a ‘millionaire's row’ by ear-marking all future residential land for prestige acreage blocks only. millionaire's salad n. originally New Zealand (a dish of or containing) the heart of a palm, esp. the nikau. ΚΠ 1982 D. Burton Two Hundred Years N.Z. Food & Cookery 7 Succulent and sweet to the taste, nikau heart later became known as ‘millionaire's salad’ because the tree dies when the heart is removed. 1999 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 12 Feb. 29 Called ‘Millionaire's Salad’ in the Seychelle Islands, this salad is based on fresh palm hearts which grow wild on the islands. millionaire's shortbread n. originally and chiefly Scottish shortbread covered with a layer of caramel and topped with chocolate, typically served cut into small squares. ΚΠ 1990 C. MacDonald Claire MacDonald's Scotl. (1996) 144 Chocolate toffee shortbread..also known as millionaire's shortbread. 2000 Scotl. on Sunday (Electronic ed.) 27 Feb. When I worked in an upmarket caf in the years before the advent of espresso bars, a favourite was the rich, aptly named millionaire's shortbread. It seems to have survived the vagaries of fashion and found its way on to the coolest counters. C2. Compounds of the adjective. millionaire city n. = million city n. at million adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1936 C. B. Fawcett in B. Salamon & K. Kuchar Mélanges de Géogr. offerts à V. S̨vambera 52 A ‘millionaire-city’ is to be understood as a conurbation which contains at least one million inhabitants. 1958 Geography 43 258 The emergence of millionaire cities and even five-million cities in tropical countries is now widespread and continuing. 2000 Financial Times (Nexis) 11 Jan. 26 Many of the world's largest cities have satellite ‘millionaire’ cities within one urban area. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1795
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