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millionairedom en · NOUN

Etymology

From millionaire + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being a millionaire.
    • This was only an interval sent to try him - one day would see him back in his radio store with his foot set firmly on the first rung to millionairedom. 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 194:
  2. (uncountable) The world or sphere of millionaires.
    • With the "Constance," which in his heart of hearts he loathed, departed the last remnant of Cheyne's millionairedom, and he gave himself up to an energetic idleness. 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, chapter X, in “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC: