magnate.
Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
Meaning & usage
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.
A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
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.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin magnātēs, plural of magnās, from magnus (“great”), mid 15th c.
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