THESAURUS
Magnate
Brahman, Establishment, VIP, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, banker, baron, baronet, big boss, big businessman, big gun, big man, big name, big wheel, big-timer, bigwig, blue blood, brass, brass hat, business leader, businessman, captain of industry, celebrity, count, czar, daimio, dignitary, dignity, director, duke, earl, elder, enterpriser, entrepreneur, esquire, fat cat, father, figure, financier, gentleman, grand duke, grandee, great man, hidalgo, important person, industrialist, interests, king, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lion, little businessman, lord, lordling, lords of creation, magnifico, man of commerce, man of mark, manager, margrave, marquis, merchant prince, mogul, nabob, name, noble, nobleman, notability, notable, optimate, palsgrave, panjandrum, patrician, peer, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, plutocrat, power, power elite, prince, ruling circle, sachem, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, somebody, something, squire, swell, the great, the top, thoroughbred, top brass, top executive, top people, tycoon, upper-cruster, very important person, viscount, waldgrave, worthy
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Magnate
Nobility
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nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy, blood, pur sang, birth, high descent, order, quality, gentility, blue blood of Castile, ancien regime, high life, haute monde, upper classes, upper ten thousand, the four hundred, elite, aristocracy, great folks, fashionable world, peer, peerage, house of lords, house of peers, lords, lords temporal and spiritual, noblesse, noble, nobleman, lord, lordling, grandee, magnifico, hidalgo, daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku, don, donship, aristocrat, swell, three- tailed bashaw, gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate, gentry, gentlefolk, squirarchy, better sort magnates, primates, optimates, pantisocracy, king, atheling, prince, duke, marquis, marquisate, earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret, baronet, baronetcy, knight, knighthood, count, armiger, laird, signior, seignior, esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour, emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali, sahib, chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave, princess, begum, duchess, marchioness, countess, lady, dame, memsahib, Do$a, maharani, rani, personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark, notables, notabilities, celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar, big bug, big gun, great gun, gilded rooster, magni nominis umbra, every inch a king, noble, exalted, of rank, princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic, high-, well-born, of gentle blood, genteel, comme il faut, gentlemanlike, courtly, highly respectable, in high quarters, Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete, adelig und edel sind zweierlei, noblesse oblige.