industrialist

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ɪnˈdʌstriəlɪst/ UK /ɪnˈdʌstriəlɪst/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a person who owns or runs an industrial enterprise

The wealthy industrialist endowed a college in his native town.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who owns or runs... manufacturer magnate tycoon capitalist financier baron

Opposites

worker laborer

Word family

Related forms industry industrial industrialize industrialization

Etymology

From industrial + -ist, from industry, from Latin industria ('diligence, activity').

industria Latin

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Topics

People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives

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# industrialist

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ɪnˈdʌstriəlɪst/
**IPA (UK):** /ɪnˈdʌstriəlɪst/

## Meanings
1. a person who owns or runs an industrial enterprise

## Examples
- The wealthy industrialist endowed a college in his native town.

## Synonyms
- manufacturer
- magnate
- tycoon
- capitalist
- financier
- baron

## Antonyms
- worker
- laborer

## Related Forms
- industry
- industrial
- industrialize
- industrialization

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: industria

## Etymology
From industrial + -ist, from industry, from Latin industria ('diligence, activity').

## AI Etymology
industrialist comes from industrial + -ist, from industry, from Latin industria ('diligence, activity'). Morphologically, the ending is part of the etymology: the suffix is attached to the older base named in the history, producing a later English derivative. In present English, the noun sense is "a person who owns or runs an industrial enterprise", so the historical development ends in a clearly identifiable modern dictionary use. The same base also appears in related forms such as industry, industrial, industrialize, and industrialization. Its semantic neighborhood includes manufacturer, magnate, tycoon, and capitalist, which helps locate the modern sense without adding a separate etymological claim. The named historical forms include Latin industria.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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