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# billionaire

noun (a billionaire, billionaires)

«billionaire» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A very rich person who owns money and things worth at least one billion dollars, pounds or euros. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billionaire/#m1)

### In the lessons

In money lessons and the news it describes the richest people, often owners of big companies. It helps children understand how huge a billion is. In stories, a billionaire character tells the reader about great wealth and power. Phrases: «a tech billionaire», «become a billionaire».

### Examples

- A billionaire owns at least a thousand million pounds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billionaire/#x1)
- The billionaire paid for a new hospital. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billionaire/#x2)
- He went from selling lemonade to being a billionaire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billionaire/#x3)
- Some billionaires build rockets to go to space. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billionaire/#x4)
- Being a billionaire does not always make you happy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billionaire/#x5)
- The story was about a billionaire who lost everything. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billionaire/#x6)
- There are more millionaires than billionaires in the world. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billionaire/#x7)

### Note

Countable: a billionaire, billionaires. Spelling: billion + -aire, with one n before -aire (billionaire, like millionaire). In maths: one billion = 1,000,000,000 = a thousand million (in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia today). A billionaire is a thousand times richer than someone with one million.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «billionaire» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billionaire/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«billionaire» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/billionaire.html) on Mova free.