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multi-billionaire

multi-billionaire

1 4.2
A person who has many billions of dollars
  • noun
  • /ˌmʌltiˈbɪljəˌnɛr/
translation icon : multimillonario
  • There are well heeled multi billionaires who are spending a lot of money trying to muzzle voice.

We're talking about Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, multi billionaires.

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Examples

  • I mean, when Steve Jobs dies, here's a multi billionaire who lives a lifestyle that none of us can relate to, and we laid flowers at an apple shop after he died.

  • And he hasn't presented to us as some multi billionaire who's made all this money fighting and now we resent his life and his success.

  • - Does being a multi-billionaire take some of the sting off that?

  • The multi-billionaires may have infinitely more money, but the retired couples are still voting for them and their arguments.

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  • Ted Turner, multi billionaire quoted Paul Harris, the founder of Rotary said the one who serves the best profits the most.

  • They are the multi-billionaires on the Forbes 400 list as well as the politicians with whom they are partnered.

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  • Even Bloomberg, the callous and aloof multi-billionaire mayor, is throwing his money into the ring like Adelson.

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  • When Mikheil Saakashvili gracefully conceded his party's defeat in parliamentary elections to a multi-billionaire last month, it was like a big stink bomb went off that had no smell.

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  • Bill Gates is a well-known multi-billionaire who has donated much of his wealth to charitable causes.

  • Elon Musk became a multi-billionaire through his successful ventures in technology and space exploration.

Synonyms

billionaire
vsmulti-billionaire
188 3.4

A person who has at least one billion dollars

refers to a larger wealth of several billions rather than one
rich man
vsmulti-billionaire
74 1.0

A man who has a lot of money and owns many things

is gender neutral rather than referring only to men
wealthy person
vsmulti-billionaire
26 1.8

A person who has a lot of money and property

specifies a concrete total of several billions not general wealth
rich person
vsmulti-billionaire
6 1.0

A person who has a lot of money and many valuable things

focuses on having several billions rather than undefined riches
man of means
vsmulti-billionaire
4 4.9

A person who has a lot of money and property

is gender neutral and refers to several billions specifically
multibillionaire
vsmulti-billionaire
2 3.7

A person who has several billion dollars in wealth

has identical meaning but is written with a hyphen
moneybags
vsmulti-billionaire
  • Informal
7.0

A person who has a lot of money

uses a neutral formal tone and denotes several billions in wealth

How Rich

trillionaire
1 6.5
multi-billionaire
1 4.2
billionaire
188 3.4
millionaire
250 3.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

multi-billionaire = billionaire (transparent) = multi + billion + aire

The meaning is directly compositional: 'multi-' adds the idea of several billions to the base 'billionaire'.

Etymology

Multi-billionaire starts with multi- meaning 'many' and uses billion meaning 'one thousand million', following the same pattern as millionaire and billionaire, where -aire marks a rich person. So a multi-billionaire is someone who has 'many' billions of dollars, which explains the modern meaning.