magnate

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  1. noun A powerful or influential person, especially in business or industry: an oil magnate.

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  • This was simply because he had been a Confederate magnate, and had owned patriarchally a multitude of slaves, born on the spot through two centuries. —  My Life as an Author
  • The house had been built by a department-store magnate, then was bought by elegant Harry Williams, the lumber baron and aviation pioneer who was said to have charm to burn—the charm that won Marguerite, a rival of Mary Pickford. —  EQMM, November 2006
  • So the magnate was not calling to enlist me in some good cause. —  FSF,June2005
  • After calling attention to the "wrongful and unflinching way" in which the wealth of the Standard Oil magnate has been amassed, he asks: "Is a college at liberty to accept money gained in a manner so hostile to the public welfare? —  The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg
  • The magnate--he had no objection to the description--had been irritable and minced no words. —  Greener Than You Think
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  1. From Middle English magnates, magnates, from Late Latin magnātēs, pl. of magnās, magnate, from Latin magnus, great; see meg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French magnat = Spanish Portuguese Italian magnate, from Late Latin magnas (magnat-), plural magnates, also magnatus, plural magnati, a great person, a nobleman, in Middle Latin used especially with reference to the nobility forming the national representation of Hungary and Poland, from Latin magnus, great: see magnitude, main.
 

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