Magnate vs Baron - What's the difference?
magnate | baron |
Metal object with flux.
Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
(Webster 1913)
The male ruler of a barony.
A male member of the lowest rank of British nobility.
A particular cut of beef, made up of a double sirloin.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,
A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= (legal, obsolete) A husband.
As nouns the difference between magnate and baron
is that magnate is metal object with flux while baron is the male ruler of a barony.As a proper noun Baron is
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Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* * * ----baron
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(en noun)- Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
- baron and feme: husband and wife