Decamillionaire

Grammar Nazis will love this term. Most would agree that the English Language in colloquial use often gets sloppy. Technically, a “couple” means “two.” However, the word’s specificity has been blurred to mean “more than 1 but less than 10.”

Financial grammar Nazis who wished to segment the catch-all title of “multimillionaire” to, for example, distinguish between the woman who wins a $3 million lottery and the estimated $42 million net worth of comedian Dave Chappelle, decided that to delineate that difference required a separate description. Thus the term "decamillionaire," derived from the Greek word for the number 10, was created to categorize those with at least 10 million U.S. dollars, euros, pounds sterling, or other currencies. Since measuring a LeBron James or a Dwayne Johnson in the hundreds of millions would subsequently create the unwieldy title of “Ecatomillionaire,” the term “multimillionaire” will likely not be disappearing any time in the near future.