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English
Etymology
From billion + -aire.
Pronunciation
Noun
billionaire (plural billionaires)
- Somebody whose wealth is at least one billion (109) currency units.
- Synonym: (rare) milliardaire
2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
Derived terms
Translations
wealth exceeding one billion (109)
- Arabic: مِلْيَارْدِير m (milyārdīr)
- Armenian: միլիարդատեր (hy) (miliardater)
- Belarusian: мільярдэ́р m (milʹjardér), мільярдэ́рка f (milʹjardérka)
- Burmese: ဘီလီယံနာ (bhiliyamna)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 億萬富翁 / 亿万富翁 (jik1 maan6 fu3 jung1)
- Mandarin: 億萬富翁 / 亿万富翁 (zh) (yìwàn fùwēng)
- Czech: miliardář (cs) m
- Danish: milliardær c
- Dutch: miljardair (nl) m
- Esperanto: miliardulo
- Estonian: miljardär (et)
- Finnish: miljardööri (fi)
- French: milliardaire (fr) m or f
- Georgian: მილიარდერი (miliarderi)
- German: Milliardär (de) m, Milliardärin (de) f
- Greek: δισεκατομμυριούχος (el) m (disekatommyrioúchos)
- Hebrew: מיליארדר (he) m (miliarder), מיליארדרית f (miliarderit)
- Hungarian: milliárdos (hu)
- Icelandic: milljarðamæringur m
- Indonesian: milyader
- Italian: miliardario (it) m
- Japanese: 億万長者 (ja) (おくまんちょうじゃ, okumanchōja)
- Kazakh: миллиардер (milliarder)
- Khmer: អ្នកមានលុយរាប់រយកោដិ (ʼnɑɑkmiənluyrŏəprɔɔykaodeʼ)
- Korean: 억만장자 (ko) (eongmanjangja)
- Macedonian: милијарде́р m (milijardér)
- Mongolian: тэрбумтан (mn) (terbumtan)
- Norwegian: milliardær m
- Persian: میلیاردر (fa) (miliyârder)
- Polish: miliarder (pl) m, miliarderka (pl) f
- Portuguese: bilionário m
- Romanian: miliardar (ro) m, miliardară (ro) f
- Romansch: milliardari m
- Russian: миллиарде́р (ru) m (milliardér), миллиарде́рша (ru) f (milliardérša)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: милијардер m
- Roman: milijarder (sh) m
- Spanish: milmillonario m, multimillonario (es) m, millardario m
- Swahili: bilionea
- Swedish: miljardär (sv) c
- Thai: มหาเศรษฐี (th) (má-hǎa-sèet-tǐi), กุฎุมพี (th) (gù-dum-pii)
- Turkish: milyarder (tr)
- Ukrainian: мільярде́р m (milʹjardér), мільярде́рка f (milʹjardérka)
- Urdu: ارب پتی m (arab patī)
- Vietnamese: tỉ phú
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