thousandaire en · NOUN
Etymology
From thousand + -aire.
Meanings
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(humorous) Somebody whose wealth is greater than one thousand units of the local currency.
Plus, you’ve been in Cyrodiil for less than a week and have already become a hundredaire. A high-end hundredaire too, over halfway to thousandaire.
2020, Kazerad, Katia: Try a few more things, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), July 20 2020“Obviously, no tears will be shed for the fact that billionaires have gone down in their net worth,” Steve Forbes, the magazine’s editor in chief, told a gathering of thousandaires, more commonly known as journalists.
2009 March 13, Clyde Haberman, “The Rich: Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them”, in New York Times:
- (derogatory) An ersatz millionaire, a label for a person claiming millionaire status whose networth is less than a million.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| thousandaires | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
multithousandaire · thousandairess · ten-thousandaire · hundred-thousandaire