Magnate

Quick meaning: Magnate is a noun meaning Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.

Meaning

Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.

More Meanings

1. A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
2. (historical) In medieval and early modern Italy, a member of a legally defined category of especially wealthy patrician families, often deprived of the right to political participation by republican governments.

Example Sentences

He mingled with the Magnates of his land; / Join'd the carousals of the great and gay, […]

I have decided to become an oil magnate, after spending quite some time reading the dictionary definition of the word magnate.

Sir Richard Branson is an English business magnate, best known as the founder of the multimillion-pound Virgin Group, which consists of more than four hundred companies.

Those considered politically dangerous could be excluded from office by declaring them magnates, while cancellation of magnate status was a mark of favour, a means of political patronage.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for magnate

Depending on context, synonyms include power, mogul, baron, king, tycoon.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tycoon, king, baron, power, mogul, millionaire.

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