Word: shaleionaires
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: sha
lei
o
naires
Definition: Plural of shaleionaire. A person who has become rich by allowing natural gas to be extracted from a shale deposit situated below land they own.
Morphemes:
Affix: shale
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: schale
Language: enm
Decoded: schale
Meaning: shell, husk; scale
Affix: million
Language: en
PoS: Numeral
Meaning: An unspecified very large number.
Affix: -aire
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: One whose wealth exceeds a specific number of units in the local currency.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: million
Language: fr
Decoded: million
PoS: Numeral
Meaning: million, 106.
Affix: -aire
Language: fr
Decoded: -aire
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: -ary (nominal suffix)
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form many pluralia tantum (nouns that are almost or entirely without singular forms).