Meaning

3 senses
  1. Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.

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

    магна́тmagnát

    магна́тmahnát

    a very wealthy or powerful businessperson

  2. A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.

  3. (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.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. He is a magnate.

  2. Miroslav is a business magnate.

  3. I was in a rage against those whom you quote and who work hard for their magnates.

  4. Sami was an Egyptian shipping magnate.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
powerful industrialist; captain of industry:
Русский
By meaning 1
powerful industrialist; captain of industry:

Origin

Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin magnātēs, plural of magnās, from magnus

Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin magnātēs, plural of magnās, from magnus (“great”), mid 15th c.

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Forms

plural: magnates
Singularmagnate
Pluralmagnates

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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