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-aire

-aire suffix: one whose wealth exceeds a specific number of units in the local currency.

Suffix

-aire (noun-forming suffix, plural -aires)

  1. (excessive, sometimes) One whose wealth exceeds a specific number of units in the local currency.

Forms of -aire

plural-aires

Origin of -aire

Rebracketing of millionaire, which was, in turn, borrowed from French millionnaire.

Questions about -aire

What does -aire mean?
-aire means one whose wealth exceeds a specific number of units in the local currency.
What part of speech is -aire?
-aire is a suffix.

Words near -aire in the dictionary

  1. -agogue
  2. -agogy
  3. -ahh
  4. -aholic
  5. -aholism
  6. -aire
  7. -aires
  8. -aissance
  9. -al
  10. -alf
  11. -algia

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