millionnaire

millionnaire (plural millionnaires)

1. Archaic spelling of millionaire.
   • 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858‎^[1]:

     The large, smooth, florid millionnaire, dreaming only of senatorial honors, the shouts of the multitude, and the adoration of a party press, cowered like a dog under the lash of the "man of society."

   • 1853, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lucretia, Complete‎^[2]:

     But the state of Dalibard, though prosperous, is not that of the heir to the dead millionnaire.

   • 1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, chapter XXIX, in Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September 1909, →OCLC, page 258:

     They are all stupid when they are not crafty, and very few of them are crafty. The only wise Republicans are the millionnaires and their conscious henchmen. They know which side their bread is buttered on, and they know why.

   • 1914, William Davenport Hulbert, Forest Neighbors‎^[3]:

     He swallowed it, of course, and for the next five minutes he went charging up and down that pond at a great rate, followed by a green glass monster with the name of a millionnaire brewer blown in its side.

From million +‎ -aire.

• IPA^(key): /mi.ljɔ.nɛʁ/

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millionnaire m or f by sense (plural millionnaires)

1. millionaire

• → English: millionaire
• → Portuguese: milionário
• → Turkish: milyoner

millionnaire (plural millionnaires)

1. Very rich

• multimillionnaire / archimillionnaire

• milliardaire

• “millionnaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.