zillionaire

[ zil-yuh-nair ]

noun

, Informal.

1. a person of incalculably great wealth.

Word History and Origins

Origin of zillionaire¹

First recorded in 1945–50; zillion + (million)aire

Example Sentences

Except for publicly traded securities, it’s very difficult to figure out what a zillionaire’s assets are worth.

From Washington Post

Occasionally she posts a “snapshot” of herself posed alongside it and a neon-orange G-Wagon owned by her zillionaire half sister Kylie Jenner.

From New York Times

If Palm Beach was once a sleepy winter resort of the moneyed Eastern elite, it is now a kind of “zillionaire bedlam,” Mr. Stolman said.

From New York Times

The question is set within a tangle of tightening budgets, greedy politicians, ill-tempered bureaucrats and a creepy zillionaire media darling who is insinuating himself, for unknown reasons, into Slough House’s affairs.

From Seattle Times

He and his partner, Remy Morgan, probe the murder of an ailing real-estate zillionaire; someone tampered with the old guy’s bedside oxygen tank.

From Seattle Times