tycoon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 大君 (taikun, “great lord / prince”), a title for the shōgun. Related to taipan, from Cantonese 大班 (daai6 baan1).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɪˈkuːn/

  • Audio (RP)

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• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

tycoon (plural tycoons)

1. A wealthy and powerful business person.

   Synonyms: captain of industry, magnate, mogul

   Chairman Yu is a tycoon who owns multiple hotel chains.

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.

Derived terms

• tycoonocracy
• tycoonocrat

Related terms

• daimyō
• taipan

Translations

wealthy, powerful business person

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: handiki
• Bulgarian: магнат m (magnat)
• Catalan: magnat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大亨 (zh) (dàhēng), 巨頭 (zh), 巨头 (zh) (jùtóu), 財閥 (zh), 财阀 (zh) (cáifá), (colloquial) 大款 (zh) (dàkuǎn)

• Czech: magnát m
• Danish: magnat c
• Dutch: magnaat (nl) m, tycoon (nl) m
• Esperanto: magnato
• Estonian: magnaat, suurtööstur
• Finnish: pohatta (fi), suurliikemies, suuraatelinen, magnaatti (fi)
• French: magnat (fr) m, tycoon (fr) m
• German: Magnat (de) m, Tycoon (de) m, Mogul (de) m, Manager (de)
• Greek: μεγαλοεπιχειρηματίας (el) m or f (megaloepicheirimatías), βασιλιάς (el) m (vasiliás), μεγιστάνας (el) m (megistánas)
• Hebrew: טַיְיקוּן‎ (he) m (taykún), אֵיל הוֹן‎ m (ēl hon)
• Hungarian: iparmágnás
• Ido: nabobo (io), magnato (io)

• Italian: magnate (it) m or f, capitano d'industria m, mogol m, tycoon (it) m
• Japanese: 巨頭 (きょとう, kyotō), 大立者 (おおだてもの, ōdatemono), 実力者 (じつりょくしゃ, jitsuryokusha)
• Korean: 거물 (ko) (geomul)
• Manx: ard-ghelleyder m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: magnat m, tycoon m

  Nynorsk: magnat m

• Polish: magnat (pl) m
• Portuguese: magnata (pt) m or f
• Romanian: magnat (ro) m
• Russian: магна́т (ru) m (magnát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: та̀јкӯн m, ма̀гна̄т m

  Roman: tàjkūn (sh) m, màgnāt (sh) m

• Spanish: magnate (es) m, magnata f
• Swedish: magnat (sv) c
• Vietnamese: trùm tư bản, vua tư bản

Further reading

• tycoon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• coonty

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English, from Japanese 大君 (taikun, “great prince”), a title for the shōgun, from the Chinese root 大 (“big, great”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taj.kun/

Noun

tycoon m (plural tycoons)

1. tycoon, magnate

Synonyms

• magnat