a very important and influential person in business or industry
Origin of magnate
Middle English from Late Latin magnas (pl. magnates), great man from Classical Latin magnus, great: see magni-
noun
The definition of a magnate is someone who is influential and powerful in a specific field.
William Randolph Hearst is an example of a newspaper magnate.
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noun
A powerful or influential person, especially in business or industry: an oil magnate.
Origin of magnate
Middle English magnates magnates, high officials (attested only in pl.) perhaps from Late Latin magnātēs pl. of magnās great man or from Late Latin magnātus great man both from Latin magnus great ; see meg- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural magnates)
- Metal object with flux.
- Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
- A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
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Sentence Examples
- Dionysus, being set up against him (145) by Tryphon, a magnate of the kingdom.
- EDWARD HENRY HARRIMAN (1848-1909), American financier and railroad magnate, son of the Rev. Orlando Harriman, rector of St George's Episcopal church, Hempstead, L.I., was born at Hempstead on the 25th of February 1848.
- One of his most celebrated pieces was Zofjowka, written on the country seat of Felix Potocki, a Polish magnate, for this was the age of descriptive as well as didactic poetry.
- Under the Old Kingdom the attendance on and services for a dead magnate - the sacrifices and libations at his tomb - were left, together with endowments, to a staff of priests, called "servants of the ko(ka)," whose offices were hereditary.
- Hence the favourite expedient for men of birth, although not of fortune, was to attach themselves to some prince or magnate in whose military service they were sure of an adequate maintenance and might hope for even a rich reward in the shape of booty or of ransom.'
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