quadrillionaire

quadrillion +‎ -aire

quadrillionaire (plural quadrillionaires)

1. Somebody whose wealth is greater than one quadrillion units of the local currency.
   • 1954, Thurman Andrew, Property, Profits, and People, page 39:

     No doubt, had a million or so more worlds been equally accessible, Ford could have been a quadrillionaire in two or three more years.

   • 2003, H.W. Wilson Company, Book review digest - Volume 99, page 537:

     This is a novel by the author of The Love of Stones (2001). "John Law is a man full of secrets. People call him the Cryptographer, or the Codemaker. He is mysterious and charming, the world's first quadrillionaire, the inventor of an unbreakable code, of a new form of electronic money called Soft Gold.

   • 2014, Ryan Browning, (Please provide the book title or journal name), →ISBN:

     I just wanted to come byand say merry Christmas and congratulate you on becoming the world's first quadrillionaire.”

2. (by extension) An extremely wealthy person.
   • 1891 September, W.A.G., “Ode On My Washbill”, in The Round Table, volume 38, number 1:

     If I were a quadrillionaire, I can see How I might meet these wash-bills with just a degree Of plain aflability,-but as I'm not, And probably never will be, I'll be shot If I see how it is that they charge so much here That a laundryman makes off one man, in a year, Enough boodle to keep him the rest of his life, Besides all his children, his parents, and wife.

   • 1997, Martin Harry Greenberg, Vampires: The Greatest Stories, →ISBN, page 236:

     Loonies are always good material; they're so unpredictable, so genuine. And a quadrillionaire loonie geek was the acme of ratingsworthiness.

   • 2007, Newsbreak, page 74:

     A 'quadrillionaire,' a has-been singer, a loquacious Marcos loyalist — they all ran for the Senate.

• quadrillion
• millionaire
• billionaire
• trillionaire