magnate
Wealthy business leader
A magnate is a powerful figure in business or industry—someone who has amassed great wealth and influence in a particular field: a shipping magnate, a media magnate, an oil magnate.
The word implies not just wealth but dominance over an entire sector.
It's slightly old-fashioned, evoking the industrial barons of the early twentieth century.
Dominant industrial leader
- mogulInfluential industry leader
- baronLow-ranking peer
- capitalistPrivate ownership supporter
- entrepreneurOne who starts businesses
manufacturer · founder · executive · CEO · chairman · proprietor · businesswoman · businessman
Person worth ten figures
- millionairePerson possessing great wealth
- plutocratRuler through wealth
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- affluenceAbundance of money
riches · capital · portfolio · investor · financier · heir · inheritance · estate
Power to affect others
- cloutInformal power or punch
- leverageBorrowed capital for amplified returns
- kingmakerPolitical influence wielder
- patronageSupporter's financial backing
lobbying · connections · networking · authority · sway · dominance · monopoly · oligarch
Titled ruling class
- aristocratPerson of noble birth
- bluebloodPerson of noble birth
- patricianHighborn Roman elite
- gentryHighborn but not noble
highborn · grandee · upper-class · elite · privileged · establishment · pedigree · lineage
tycoon
Dominant industrial leader
- mogulInfluential industry leader
- baronLow-ranking peer
- capitalistPrivate ownership supporter
entrepreneur · manufacturer · founder · executive · CEO · chairman · proprietor · businesswoman · businessman · director
billionaire
Person worth ten figures
- millionairePerson possessing great wealth
- plutocratRuler through wealth
- fortuneWealth or destiny
affluence · riches · capital · portfolio · investor · financier · heir · inheritance · estate · endowment
influence
Power to affect others
- cloutInformal power or punch
- leverageBorrowed capital for amplified returns
- kingmakerPolitical influence wielder
patronage · lobbying · connections · networking · authority · sway · dominance · monopoly · oligarch · dynasty
nobility
Titled ruling class
- aristocratPerson of noble birth
- bluebloodPerson of noble birth
- patricianHighborn Roman elite
gentry · highborn · grandee · upper-class · elite · privileged · establishment · pedigree · lineage · socialite
benefactor
One who gives aid
foundation · charity · grant · scholarship · museum · hospital · arts · legacy · trustee · Carnegie
- bigwigsbigwig, big shot, big wig, VIP, big kahuna
- business empirestycoon, mogul, conglomerate, monopoly, merger
- business mogulstycoon, mogul, billionaire, titan, industrialist
- business peopleCEO, executive, entrepreneur, investor, tycoon
- Business Titanstycoon, mogul, industrialist, billionaire, CEO
- Business TycoonsAndrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt
- business magnateWealthy industrial leader
- oil magnatesWealthy petroleum industry leaders
- media magnateWealthy communications industry owner
- shipping magnateWealthy fleet owner
- mining magnatesWealthy extraction industry leaders
- railroad magnatesWealthy railway industry leaders