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Nabob vs Magnate - What's the difference?

nabob | magnate |

As nouns the difference between nabob and magnate

is that nabob is nabob, nawab (an indian ruler) while magnate is metal object with flux.

nabob

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An Indian ruler within the Mogul empire; a nawab.
  • (by extension) Someone of great wealth or importance.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
  • (by extension) A person with a grandiose style or manner.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * Nob Hill (San Francisco)

    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.

    magnate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Metal object with flux.
  • Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
  • A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
    • (Webster 1913)

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