magnate

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for magnate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæɡneɪt/, /ˈmæɡnət/
• Homophone: magnet (/ˈmægnət/)

Etymology

From Latin magnum (“great”).

Noun

magnate (plural magnates)

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

Translations

Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.

• Catalan: magnat m
• Danish: magnat c
• French: magnat (fr) m
• Ido: magnato (io)
• Italian: magnate (it) m

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: magnat m

  Nynorsk: magnat m

• Polish: magnat m
• Portuguese: magnata (pt)
• Spanish: magnate (es) m
• Swedish: magnat (sv) c

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

• Portuguese: magnate (pt) m
• Spanish: magnate (es) m

Anagrams

• Magenta, gateman, magenta, nametag

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Italian

Noun

magnate m (plural magnati)

1. magnate, tycoon, captain of industry

Anagrams

• magenta

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Latin

Noun

magnāte

1. vocative singular of magnātus

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɡˈnate/, [maɣˈnat̪e]

Noun

magnate m (plural magnates, feminine magnata)

1. magnate, tycoon

Further reading

• “magnate” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.