Innate intellectual or creative power of an exceptional or exalted type, such as is attributed to those people considered greatest in any area of…

The capacity or faculty of producing effects by insensible or invisible means, without the employment of material force, or the exercise of formal…

Chiefly with the and of. A man who founds or is otherwise influential in a (specified) organization, movement, or field. Cf. father, n. 8a.

An influential person.

The quality of being influential; an instance or example of this; concrete an influential personage.

A person of great eminence or influence.

The foremost or most eminent member (of a profession); also, in wider sense, a person of eminent position and influence.

a paternal, dominating, or influential person; (in extended use) the most important or influential thing within a particular field or specimen of a…

In Jewish usage: a person of influence or importance, a fixer; a braggart.

uncrowned king (queen), a man (woman) exerting autocratic influence over a specified sphere; a dominant man (woman). Const. of.