Meaning

(rare) Somebody whose wealth equals or is greater than the mentioned amount of dollars..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) Somebody whose wealth equals or is greater than the mentioned amount of dollars.
2. (rare) Somebody whose wealth equals a very small amount of dollars, especially when compared with millionaires, hundredaires, etc.

Example Sentences

The world's playground became a camp, and now is a workshop, and our billionaires, millionaires, and hundred-thousand-dollaraires will have to put up with Florida, California, our sight-seeing trips, and the Canadian resorts.

One is the Publishers Clearing House, which I visit every day, because you never know! I just may be the next 10 million-dollar-aire!

If not, what fan/heatsink do you all suggest for the 600e (good price to performance ratio important, I aint a hundred-dollar-aire you know)

“So,” I clutched my army jacket at my neck, “how does it feel to be a hundred-thousand-dollaraire?”

And no-one ever refers to a billion pounds as a "billipound", or Bill Gates as a "billion-dollar-aire". Completely different notation systems.

If everybody around you keeps saying, “Congratulations, you’re a millionaire!”, you can be forgiven for thinking, “Hey, yeah, I’m a millionaire!” After all, that has a much nicer ring than “Hey, I’m a 47,000-dollar-aire!”

At one time you were a “ten dollaraire,” then a hunderedaire, thousandaire, millionaire, multi-millionaire etc.

“I vote we keep going. We catch seven or eight more of these suckers and we’ll be hundred dollar-aires.”

Word Forms

• dollaraires
• dollar-aire

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When Should You Use Dollaraire?

Use dollaraire when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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