different between nabob vs magnate

English

Etymology

In colloquial usage in English since 1612, from Urdu ????? (nav?b), from Persian [Term?], from Arabic ???????? (nuww?b), the honorific plural of ??????? (n??ib, “deputy”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ne?b?b/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ne?b?b/

Noun

nabob (plural nabobs)

1. (historical) An Indian ruler within the Mogul empire.

   Synonym: nawab

2. (by extension) Someone of great wealth or importance.

   Synonyms: tycoon, magnate
3. (by extension) A person with a grandiose style or manner.

Derived terms

• Nob Hill (“neighborhood in San Francisco”)

Related terms

• nawab

Translations

References

• Nabobs: A Study of the Social Life of the English in the Eighteenth-Century, Percival Spear, Oxford University Press, London 1938; New Edition OUP, USA: 1998.
• Durham's Place-Names of the San Francisco Bay Area, David L. Durham, Quill Driver Books, California: 2000.

Further reading

• Nabob on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nabob in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

English

Etymology

Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin magn?t?s, plural of magn?s, from magnus (“great”), mid 15th c.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæ?ne?t/, /?mæ?n?t/
• Homophone: magnet (/?mægn?t/)

Noun

magnate (plural magnates)

1. Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
   • 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.
   • 1839 November 2, "Brindley in Manchester", New Moral World, page 857.

Translations

Further reading

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

References

Anagrams

• Magenta, gateman, magenta, nametag

Italian

Etymology

From Latin magn?s.

Noun

magnate m (plural magnati)

1. magnate, tycoon, captain of industry

Anagrams

• magenta

Further reading

• magnate in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

magn?te

1. vocative singular of magn?tus

Middle English

Etymology

From Late Latin. Attested only in the plural in Middle English.

Noun

magnate (plural magnates)

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

     reulers of the toun, Callid magnates

References

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??nate/, [ma???na.t?e]

Noun

magnate m (plural magnates, feminine magnata, feminine plural magnatas)

1. magnate, tycoon

Further reading

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