Meaning of Magnate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
2. A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
3. 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.
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Examples

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

“With a suitable amount of life experience⟳ under her belt, she sat down and conjured up the sexiest, most delicious Italian wine magnate she could imagine⟳, had him make⟳ his biggest mistake⟳, and gave him a wife on the run⟳.”

“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.”

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

“[…] but there is not an illiterate Justice of the Peace, or rural magnate in the form⟳ of a country squire, that would not detect⟳ such a man as an empirie at once, if he rested his claim⟳ to such an appointment on the score⟳ of his scholarship.”

“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.”

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