tycoon

English

Etymology

From Japanese 大君 (たいくん, taikun), a title for the shogun.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tai.ˈkuːn/, X-SAMPA: /tai"ku:n/
• Other 1: (tīko͞onʹ)
• Other 2: tigh-KOON
• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

tycoon (plural tycoons)

Wikipedia

1. A wealthy and powerful business person.

   Chairman Yu is a tycoon who owns multiple hotel chains.

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, 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.

Synonyms

• captain of industry, magnate, mogul

Translations

wealthy, powerful business person

• Chinese:

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

• Dutch: magnaat
• Esperanto: magnato (eo)
• Finnish: pohatta (fi), suurliikemies (fi)
• French: magnat (fr) m
• German: Magnat (de) m, Tycoon (de) m
• Hungarian: iparmágnás (hu)
• Italian: magnate (it) m

• Japanese: 巨頭 (ja) (きょとう, kyotō)
• Korean: 거물 (ko)
• Manx: ard-ghelleyder (gv) m
• Polish: magnat (pl) m
• Portuguese: magnata (pt)
• Russian: магнат (ru) (magnát) m
• Serbo-Croatian: tajkun (sh), magnat (sh)
• Spanish: magnate (es)
• Vietnamese: trùm tư bản (vi), vua tư bản (vi)

See also

• Wikipedia article on tycoons