magnate

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
    — He mingled with the Magnates of his land; / Join'd the carousals of the great and gay, […]
  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. historical
    — 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.

词形变化

magnates plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antimagnate magnateship

词源

Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin magnātēs, plural of magnās, from magnus (“great”), mid 15th c.
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