MAGNATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnate mean? 

• MAGNATE (noun)
  The noun MAGNATE has 1 sense:

1. a very wealthy or powerful businessman

  Familiarity information: MAGNATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very wealthy or powerful businessman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

baron; big businessman; business leader; king; magnate; mogul; power; top executive; tycoon

Context example:

an oil baron

Hypernyms ("magnate" is a kind of...):

businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "magnate"):

oil tycoon (a powerful person in the oil business)

 Context examples 

The point is a simple one, but the Inspector had overlooked it because he had started with the supposition that these county magnates had had nothing to do with the matter.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An aunt of my father's, and consequently a great-aunt of mine, of whom I shall have more to relate by and by, was the principal magnate of our family.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Old Acton, who is one of our county magnates, had his house broken into last Monday.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)