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sextillionaire

sextillionaire noun: somebody whose wealth is at least one sextillion (10²¹) currency units.

Noun

sextillionaire (plural sextillionaires)

  1. Somebody whose wealth is at least one sextillion (10²¹) currency units.
    • He’s the Credit Mobilier; the Credit Foncier; the prospective sextillionaire; the next President of the United States; the embodiment of Internationale; a huge Syndicate; a blase traveler, who has seen this little world, and who aspires to a jaunt over Saturn and adjacent planets.1871 November 19, “Train. A Second Characteristic Talk at Masonic Hall.”, in Republican Banner, volume 58, number 275, Nashville, Tenn., column 3
    • They supply the field for ambition and for amusement to a large majority of people, for it is a fact which we are apt to forget that the American nation is not a handful of politicians or journalists, nor yet the baker’s dozen of sextillionaires, nor even the women young men in the large cities who...1884 August 30, “Country Fairs”, in The Cecil Whig, volume XLIII, number 2,168 (whole), Elkton, Md.

Examples of sextillionaire in a sentence

  • My husband pointed her out to me first as the daughter of the great Baltimore sextillionaire.1886, “Fir Tree Bower”, in A Boston Girl; a Story of Boston, Bar Harbor, and Paris, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Belford, Clarke & Co....
  • I am the only sextillionaire in Eternity.1905 April 9, “Letters the Insane Write. Large Projects That Occupy the Minds of the Demented Are Put Down on Paper.”, in The Pittsburg...
  • As a sextillionaire, it would soon be absolutely impossible for you to experience anticipation or longing for anything with a price tag.1993, Arthur B. Hancock, Kathleen J. Brugger, “The Problem With Having It All”, in The Game of God: Recovering Your True Identity, Humans...

Forms of sextillionaire

pluralsextillionaires

Origin of sextillionaire

From sextillion + -aire.

Questions about sextillionaire

What does sextillionaire mean?
Sextillionaire means somebody whose wealth is at least one sextillion (10²¹) currency units.
How do you use sextillionaire in a sentence?
My husband pointed her out to me first as the daughter of the great Baltimore sextillionaire.
What part of speech is sextillionaire?
Sextillionaire is a noun.
What is the plural of sextillionaire?
The plural of sextillionaire is sextillionaires.

Words near sextillionaire in the dictionary

  1. sexticovariants
  2. sextics
  3. sextile
  4. sextiles
  5. sextillion
  6. sextillionaire
  7. sextillionaires
  8. sextillionfold
  9. sextillions
  10. sextillionth
  11. sextillionths

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