noun
Refers to an extremely wealthy person, often with a nuance of vast, almost unimaginable riches. The term is somewhat literary or emphatic compared to more common words like 大富豪.
彼は一代で千万長者になった。
He became a multimillionaire in one generation.
その島には千万長者が別荘を構えている。
Multimillionaires have built villas on that island.
Compound of 千万 (senban, 'ten million; countless') and 長者 (chōja, 'wealthy person; elder'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term evokes a person of immense, almost incalculable wealth.