magnate

Plural: magnates

Noun

• A wealthy and influential person, especially in business.
• a very wealthy or powerful businessman
• Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
• A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
• 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.

Examples

• After several strategic plays, he felt like a Scrabble magnate, dominating the board.
• I have decided to become an oil magnate, after spending quite some time reading the dictionary definition of the word magnate.

Synonyms

baron, big businessman, business leader, king, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon