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billionaire

/ˌbɪljəˈneə(r)/noun

उच्चारण बिल्यनेअर

अरबपति

Core word

noun
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    [C]

    an extremely rich person, who has at least a billion dollars or pounds

    अरबपति

    • India's billionaires
    • The magazine published a list of the country's richest billionaires.
    • The billionaire gave a large part of his money to charity.
    + 2 more examples
    • Few billionaires started with nothing, but some did.
    • She became a billionaire after her software company went public.

    Synonyms tycoon magnate plutocrat

§Structures (grammar patterns) 5

a billionaire / billionaires (countable)

A billionaire is a person with at least a billion units of money, usually dollars; it is a countable noun.

Billionaire वह व्यक्ति है जिसके पास कम से कम एक अरब मुद्रा-इकाइयाँ हों, प्रायः डॉलर; यह countable noun है।

  • He became a billionaire at the age of forty.
  • India has more than a hundred billionaires.

a billionaire + noun / billionaire + noun

As a modifier, it describes businessmen, philanthropists, owners and lifestyles.

Modifier के रूप में यह उद्योगपतियों, परोपकारियों, मालिकों और जीवनशैली का वर्णन करता है।

  • The billionaire businessman gave a large donation.
  • She lives a billionaire's life.

become / be / make sb a billionaire

Verbs of becoming take billionaire as a complement with a/an; success makes someone a billionaire.

बनने वाली क्रियाएँ 'billionaire' को complement की तरह a/an के साथ लेती हैं; सफलता किसी को billionaire बना देती है।

  • The tech app made its young founder a billionaire.

billionaire (rank) / the list of billionaires

Magazines publish lists of the world's billionaires each year, ranked by wealth.

पत्रिकाएँ हर साल दुनिया के billionaires की सूची उनकी संपत्ति के क्रम में प्रकाशित करती हैं।

  • He is among the top ten billionaires in Asia.

billionaire vs millionaire vs crorepati

A millionaire has a million; a billionaire has a thousand times more; crorepati is the Indian word for someone with a crore (ten million) rupees.

Millionaire के पास दस लाख होते हैं; billionaire के पास उससे हज़ार गुना अधिक; crorepati करोड़ रुपये वाले व्यक्ति के लिए भारतीय शब्द है।

  • He was a crorepati at thirty and a billionaire at fifty.
+Collocations 5

adjective + billionaire

self-madeyoungrichestIndiantech

  • She is a self-made billionaire who began with a small shop.

billionaire + noun

businessmaninvestorfounderfamilyphilanthropist

  • The billionaire philanthropist built a hospital.

verb + billionaire

becomemakemeetlistrank as

  • The share boom made him a billionaire overnight.

billionaire + preposition

billionaire ofbillionaire frombillionaire amongbillionaire by

  • He is the youngest billionaire among the founders.

billionaire + wealth

fortuneempirelifestyledonation

  • The billionaire's fortune grew with the share boom.
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  • The billionaire gave half of his wealth to charity.

उस अरबपति ने अपनी आधी संपत्ति दान में दे दी।

  • Radhika read a magazine article on India's youngest billionaires.

राधिका ने भारत के सबसे युवा अरबपतियों पर एक पत्रिका-लेख पढ़ा।

  • He was a billionaire on paper, but he had no cash.

वह काग़ज़ों पर अरबपति था, पर उसके पास नक़द नहीं था।

  • A billionaire's wealth may rise or fall with the stock market.

किसी अरबपति की संपत्ति शेयर बाज़ार के साथ बढ़ या घट सकती है।

  • Few people become billionaires through salaries alone.

बहुत कम लोग केवल वेतन से अरबपति बनते हैं।

  • Magazines rank the billionaires of the world by their net worth.

पत्रिकाएँ दुनिया के अरबपतियों को उनकी कुल संपत्ति के आधार पर क्रम देती हैं।

≈Synonyms and antonyms
§Grammar and usage

Conversion: one billion = 100 crore.

रूपांतरण: one billion = 100 करोड़।