magnateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈmæɡneɪt/, /ˈmæɡnət/
• 韻: -æɡneɪt, -æɡnət
• Homophone: magnet (one pronunciation)

名詞

magnate (plural magnates)

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.

   • 2014, Jennifer Hayward, The Magnate's Manifesto, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 2:

     With a suitable amount of life experience under her belt, she sat down and conjured up the sexiest, most delicious Italian wine magnate she could imagine, had him make his biggest mistake, and gave him a wife on the run.

   • 2015, Rod Judkins, The Art of Creative Thinking, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     Sir Richard Branson is an English business magnate, best known as the founder of the multimillion-pound Virgin Group, which consists of more than four hundred companies.

2. A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
   • 1814, [Lord Byron], “[Lara, a Tale.] Canto I.”, in Lara, a Tale. Jacqueline, a Tale, London: […] [F]or J[ohn] Murray, […], [b]y T[homas] Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza VII, page 10, lines 98–99:

     He mingled with the Magnates of his land; / Join'd the carousals of the great and gay, […]

   • 1839 November 2, “Brindley in Manchester”, in New Moral World, page 857:

     […] but there is not an illiterate Justice of the Peace, or rural magnate in the form of a country squire, that would not detect such a man as an empirie at once, if he rested his claim to such an appointment on the score of his scholarship.

3. (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.
   • 2006, Christine Shaw, Popular Government and Oligarchy in Renaissance Italy, →ISBN, page 152:

     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.

派生語

参照

• “magnate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Further reading

• magnate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• business magnate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Magenta, amagent, magenta, name tag, gateman, nametag

名詞

magnate (plural magnates)

1. a high official
   • c. 1438, John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes:

     reulers of the toun, Callid magnates

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

参照

• “magnāt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

名詞

magnāte

1. vocative singular of magnātus