CENTIMILLIONAIRE NOUN a person whose assets are worth at least 100 million dollars ...1881 US ETYMOLOGY from centi- (prefixed to the name of a unit of measurement, in later use esp. one in the metric system of weights and measures, to denote a factor of one-hundredth) + millionaire (n.), after multimillionaire FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1881 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...as counsel for the Knights of St. Crispin, for the Seven Sisters of Sorrow, and private clients in many important cases; as biographer of James C. Ayer, the centimillionaire; as the historian of the siege of Charleston and the city of Lowell..." From: Preliminaries to a History of the Cowley Family - Edward Cowley
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