| 词汇 | multimillionaire |
| 词源 | multimillionaire. Multimillionaire was first applied to John Jacob Astor, soon after his death in 1848, aged 85. Astor had made his money in fur and New York City real estate, “the rich- est man in America” amassing a fortune of well over $75 million—which made a person a lot richer back then than it does today. See also billionaire; millionaire; milliard; myriad; trillionaire. |
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