(a.) Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.
(a.) Allied; akin.
(n.) A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.
Example Sentences:
Magnate
Definition:
() A person of rank; a noble or grandee; a person of influence or distinction in any sphere.
() One of the nobility, or certain high officers of state belonging to the noble estate in the national representation of Hungary, and formerly of Poland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lord Foster, the architect, who was ennobled in 1999, and Lord Bagri, the Indian metal magnate, resigned last night.
(2) Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart has reduced her stake in Fairfax Media, publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age newspapers, less than three weeks after she increased her investment in the group.
(3) She is, as her friend the teenage media magnate Tavi Gevinson put it, nothing less than “BFF to planet Earth”.
(4) Construction firms worth €550m belonging to building magnate Rosario Cascio and €700m worth of property and business concerns have been confiscated from Giuseppe Grigoli, whose retail and distribution group allegedly laundered Messina Denaro's cash.
(5) Meanwhile, UK magnate Sir Philip Green is looking into opportunities provided by the crisis in Reykjavik.
(6) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(7) The aluminium magnate's British-related woes do not stop there: a former business partner, Michael Cherney, is suing him for $4bn in the high court.
(8) Keurig Green Mountain, the single-serving coffee magnate, claims that its latest coffee brewing system, Keurig 2.0, “brings consumers more choice than ever”.
(9) One-time mining magnate Nathan Tinkler's Buildev Group paid $66,000, the Gazal family's development company Gazcorp paid $137,000, and the Obeid-linked Australian Water Holdings (AWH) paid $137,000 for fake services invoiced by EightByFive, the inquiry has heard.
(10) In 2011, the Republican frontrunner was, briefly, Herman Cain, a pizza magnate who took his tax plan from a computer game and quoted a song from the Pokemon mo vie in his speeches.
(11) Among those expected to attend is Sheldon Adelson, a high-profile billionaire Jewish American casino magnate and major supporter of and donor to the Romney campaign.
(12) Those big expensive ads didn’t have the impact we hoped they would,” said Mel Sembler, a Florida shopping mall magnate who was a top fundraiser for the Jeb Bush-backing Right to Rise Super Pac which hauled in about $119m, but spent only a few million targeting Trump.
(13) Getty became a billionaire oil magnate after four years of speculative drilling in the Saudi Arabian desert proved to be worth the risk.
(14) Hywood assured staff the papers would remain independent and would not be influenced editorially by the company's largest shareholder, the mining magnate Gina Rinehart , who boosted her stake in Fairfax Media to 18.7% last week.
(15) Guests on the night included the reclusive mining magnate and media player Gina Rinehart and media baron Rupert Murdoch, and Abbott was introduced on the occasion by influential Melbourne columnist and broadcaster Andrew Bolt.
(16) According to Bornstein, the business magnate has never had cancer, nor has he ever had a “hip, knee, or shoulder replacement, or any other orthopedic surgery”.
(17) Now the billionaire media magnate has jumped into the ring with anti-Putin activist and blogger Alexey Navalny, just as the Kremlin tightens the screws on dissenting voices on the internet.
(18) Meanwhile, the Burrell Collection – gifted to the city by shipping magnate Sir William Burrell in 1944 – contains more than 8,000 works of art collected during his lifetime.
(19) Newman has also accused the mining magnate of trying to buy his government, allegations which will see the pair square off in court.
(20) The 77-year-old media magnate has issued alternate pleas and threats in an attempt to avoid being stripped of his seat under a law passed last year – with the support of his then party, the Freedom People – which stipulates that MPs convicted of serious criminal offences must be ineligible for parliament.