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Tycoon

Ty-coon′

(tī̍ˊkoōn′)

,

Noun.

[Chinese

tai-kun

great prince.]

The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.

Definition 2024

tycoon

tycoon

English

Noun

tycoon ‎(plural tycoons)

A wealthy and powerful business person.
Chairman Yu is a tycoon who owns multiple hotel chains.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, in Crime out of Mind:
  Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.

Synonyms

captain of industry

magnate

mogul

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

wealthy, powerful business person

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
Dutch: magnaat (nl) m, tycoon (nl) m
Esperanto: magnato
Estonian: magnaat, suurtööstur
Finnish: pohatta (fi), suurliikemies, suuraatelinen, magnaatti
French: magnat (fr) m, tycoon (fr) m
German: Magnat (de) m, Tycoon (de) m, Mogul (de) m
Greek: μεγαλοεπιχειρηματίας (el) m, f ‎(megaloepicheirimatías), βασιλιάς (el) m ‎(vasiliás), μεγιστάνας (el) m ‎(megistánas)
Hebrew: טַיְיקוּן (he) m ‎(ṭayqūn), אֵיל הַהוֹן m ‎(ʾēl hahōn)

Hungarian: iparmágnás
Ido: nabobo (io), magnato (io)
Italian: magnate (it) m, 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 m
Portuguese: magnata (pt) m, 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

See also

tycoon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowing 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)

tycoon, magnate

Synonyms

magnat