FromMiddle Englishmagnete, viaOld Frenchmagnete,Latinmagnēs, magnētem(“lodestone”), fromAncient Greekμαγνῆτις [λίθος](magnêtis [líthos],“Magnesian [stone]”), either after theLydian cityMagnesia ad Sipylum (modern-dayManisa,Turkey), or after the Greek region ofΜαγνησία(Magnēsía) (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia). Related tomanganese,magnesia andmagnesium.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈmæɡnət/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈmæɡnɪt/
• Homophone:magnate(one pronunciation)
• Rhymes:-ɪt

magnet (pluralmagnets)

1. A piece of material that attracts somemetals bymagnetism.
2. (informal,figuratively, often in combination) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun.

   He always had a girl on his arm – he's a bit of a babemagnet.

   • 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, inRailway Magazine, page157:

     Iron and coal were themagnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.

   • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America,Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:

     Again, dude? Man, you just aMAGNET for trouble!

   • 2007 March, J. Michael Fay, “Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma”, inNational Geographic, section 47:

     […] I wanted to show Nick the largest of the water holes, Rigueik, that act asmagnets to life in the dry season.

   • 2022, Steve Mann,Easy Peasy Cocker Spaniel:

     Regular baths will help keep your dog clean and fresh-smelling. The frequency will depend entirely on your own preferences as well as how much of a mud-magnet your dog is!

3. (Internet)Short formagnet link.
   • 2019, David Adams, Ann-Kathrin Maier,Big Seven Study (2016): 7 open source Crypto-Messengers to be compared, page142:

     Magnets are thus used to create a package of cryptologic information and bundling^[sic] it together.

• electret(a magnet analog for electric charge)

• → Cebuano:magnet
• →? Indonesian:magnet
• →? Malay:magnet
• → Tagalog:magnet
• → Welsh:magnet

•  magnet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Getman

magnet m (pluralmagnete,definitemagneti,definite pluralmagnetet)

1. magnet

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1],1980

Borrowed fromEnglishmagnet, fromOld Frenchmagnete,Latinmagnetum "lodestone" fromAncient Greekμαγνῆτις [λίθος](magnêtis [líthos],“Magnesian [stone]”), either after theLydian cityMagnesia ad Sipylum (modern-dayManisa,Turkey), or after the Greek region ofΜαγνησία(Magnēsía) (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia).

• Hyphenation:mag‧net

magnet

1. magnet

Derived fromAncient Greekμαγνῆτις(magnêtis).

• IPA^(key):[ˈmaɡnɛt]

magnet m inan

1. magnet

• “magnet”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
• “magnet”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989
• “magnet”, inInternetová jazyková příručka (in Czech),2008–2025

magnet c (singular definitemagneten,plural indefinitemagneter)

1. magnet

• “magnet” inDen Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key):/ˈmɑɡ̊net/

magnet (genitivemagneti,partitivemagnetit)

1. magnet

• magnet inSõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “magnet”, in[EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation),2009
• “magnet”, in[ÕS]Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation),2018,→ISBN

magnet f (genitive singularmagnetar, pluralmagnetir)

1. magnet

• sigul
• magnetur

• "magnet" at Sprotin.fo

• maknit(obsolete)

Borrowed fromDutchmagneet, fromMiddle Dutchmagneet, from oldermagnes, fromLatinmagnēs, fromAncient Greekμαγνήτης λίθος(magnḗtēs líthos).

• (Standard Indonesian)IPA^(key):/ˈmaɡnɛt/[ˈmak̚.nɛt̪̚]
• Rhymes:-aɡnɛt
• Syllabification:mag‧net

magnet (pluralmagnet-magnet)

1. magnet:
   1. (electromagnetism) a piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism

      Synonyms:sembrani,besi sembrani,batu semberani,batu berani

• “magnet” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

FromEnglishmagnet, fromMiddle Englishmagnete, viaOld Frenchmagnete,Latinmagnēs, magnētem(“lodestone”), fromAncient Greekμαγνῆτις [λίθος](magnêtis [líthos],“Magnesian [stone]”).

• IPA^(key):[mɛk.nɛt]
• Rhymes:-nɛt,-ɛt
• Hyphenation:mag‧net

magnet (Jawi spellingمݢنيت,pluralmagnet-magnet)

1. Amagnet.

   Synonyms:besi berani,semberani

• “magnet” inPusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur:Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

magnet

1. Alternative form ofmagnete

magnet m (definite singularmagneten,indefinite pluralmagneter,definite pluralmagnetene)

1. amagnet

• “magnet” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

magnet m (definite singularmagneten,indefinite pluralmagnetar,definite pluralmagnetane)

1. amagnet

• “magnet” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed fromGermanMagnet.

• IPA^(key):/maɡˈnet/

magnet m (pluralmagneți)

1. magnet

• magnet inDEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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• IPA^(key):/mǎɡneːt/
• Hyphenation:mag‧net

màgnēt m (Cyrillic spellingма̀гне̄т)

1. amagnet(piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)

• “magnet”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2025

• IPA^(key):[ˈmaɡnet]

magnet m inan (relational adjectivemagnetovýormagnetický)

1. magnet

• “magnet”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025

• IPA^(key):/maɡnéːt/

magnẹ̑t m inan

1. magnet

This noun needs aninflection-table template.

• “magnet”, inSlovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene),2014–2025

FromMiddle High Germanmagnet(e), fromLatinmagnēs, fromAncient Greekμαγνης(magnēs,“Magnesian”).

magnet c

1. amagnet(piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)
2. (figuratively) something that attracts something

   en riktig publikmagnet

   a real attraction [a real audiencemagnet]

   brudmagnet

   chick magnet

• → Finnish:magneetti

• magnet inSvenska Akademiens ordböcker
• magnet in Elof Hellquist,Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Borrowed fromEnglishmagnet.

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈmaɡnet/[ˈmaɡ.n̪ɛt̪̚]
• Rhymes:-aɡnet
• Syllabification:mag‧net

magnet (Baybayin spellingᜋᜄ᜔ᜈᜒᜆ᜔)

1. magnet

   Synonym:balani

• magnetiko
• magnetismo

• “magnet”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018

Borrowed fromEnglishmagnet.

magnet m orf (pluralmagnetauormagnets)

1. magnet

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “magnet”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies