magnate
IPA: mˈægnʌt
noun
- Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
- A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
- (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.
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Examples of "magnate" in Sentences
- He is a media magnate in the industry.
- Most of them were soldiers of the magnate military.
- In the first case the taxation fell on the magnates.
- One of the wealthiest magnates in contemporary Poland.
- The poorest enjoyed the same rights as the wealthiest magnate.
- An oligarchy of quarrelsome magnates gained control of Hungary.
- It was started by the magnates, not by the king or the parliament.
- The former pizza magnate donated a lot of money for the community.
- The Norman magnate Roger de Montgomery held the village from the king.
- The clubhouse was built as the home for the silver magnate James Flood.
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