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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A wealthy and powerful businessperson or industrialist; a magnate.
  2. n. Used formerly as a title for a Japanese shogun.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The title by which the shoguns of Japan were known to foreigners from the signing of the treaty negotiated in 1854 by Commodore Matthew Perry, on behalf of the United States, and Iyesada, the shogun and supposed “temporal emperor “of Japan, to the end of the shogunate in 1868, but never recognized by the Japanese.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A wealthy and powerful business person.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a very wealthy or powerful businessman

Etymologies

  1. From Japanese 大君 (たいくん, taikun), a title for the shogun. (Wiktionary)
  2. Japanese taikun, title of a shogun, of Chinese origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “With a net worth of $1.75 billion -- up from $1.06 billion a year ago -- the tycoon is No. 37 on this year's list of India's richest people.”

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  • “November 2nd, 2009 Virgin tycoon SIR RICHARD BRANSON has deserted his efforts to sinecure a heroic commander of a miraculous Hudson River craft pile-up for his intergalactic spaceship mission.”

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  • “Because while the 26-year-old internet tycoon is estimated to be worth $6. 9bn, he is a paper billionaire.”

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  • “The media tycoon is worth £1. 3bn but he has little time for his fellow Russian oligarchs”

    The Guardian: Alexander Lebedev: profile

  • “She begins to correspond with club members and, after deciding to visit them, becomes enmeshed in their lives – though a handsome American publishing tycoon is courting her back in London.”

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  • “Ex-record-label tycoon sold his Zomba Recordings , onetime label for Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, to BMG for $2.7 billion in 2002.”

    Forbes: In Pictures: The U.K.'s Billionaires

  • “The three British billionaire ex-pats are retailer Philip Green, or more exactly his wife Christina though they count as one for the purposes of our list; Clive Calder, the South African born ex-record-label tycoon who discovered Britney Spears; and currency trader turned investor Joseph Lewis.”

    Forbes: The U.K.'s Billionaires

  • “Gingrich had accepted a multimillion-dollar book advance from a Rupert Murdoch company while the media tycoon was an interested party to legislation pending in Congress.”

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  • “Mbalula also appeared to reject the notion of tycoon Tokyo Sexwale as a compromise candidate for the leadership.”

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  • “Working alongside the tycoon was a "tremendous learning experience" he said, adding that Fridman had the unique skill of making "hardly any wrong decisions".”

    Forbes: Fridman's Altimo Targeting Expansion Into Asia

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synonyms (3)

Words with the same meaning

  1. magnate
  1. captain of industry
  1. mogul

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. businessman
  1. man of affairs

hyponyms (1)

Words that are more specific

  1. oil tycoon

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. industrialist
  2. entrepreneur
  3. magnate
  4. billionaire
  1. mogul
  2. businessman
  3. speculator
  4. Ceos
  1. hackers
  2. profiteer
  3. rancher
  4. millionaire
  1. co-founder
  2. execs
  3. syndicate
  4. buy-out
  1. jewelers
  2. barrister
  3. druggist
  4. stockbroker

rhymes (64)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bethune
  2. Boone
  3. Calhoun
  4. June
  5. Karun
  6. Kuhn
  7. Moon
  8. Noone
  9. Rangoon
  10. Sassoon
  11. Toon
  12. Tune
  1. afternoon
  2. attune
  3. baboon
  4. balloon
  5. bassoon
  6. boon
  7. brune
  8. buffoon
  9. cardoon
  10. cartoon
  11. choon
  12. cocoon
  1. commune
  2. contrabassoon
  3. coon
  4. croon
  5. dune
  6. festoon
  7. galloon
  8. goon
  9. harpoon
  10. hewn
  11. hoon
  12. immune
  1. impugn
  2. inopportune
  3. kroon
  4. lagoon
  5. lampoon
  6. loon
  7. maroon
  8. monsoon
  9. moon
  10. moone
  11. noon
  12. noone
  1. opportune
  2. picayune
  3. platoon
  4. pontoon
  5. poon
  6. prune
  7. raccoon
  8. rune
  9. saloon
  10. soon
  11. spoon
  12. strewn
  1. swoon
  2. toon
  3. tune
  4. typhoon

reverse dictionary (8)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. taikun
  1. taipan
  1. e. h. harriman
  1. edward henry harriman
  1. Harriman
  1. hill
  1. j. j. hill
  1. james jerome hill

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  • liu_xing = big (gentle)man. (from Chinese) (This is possibly cheating as it might have come via Japanese) Jan 22, 2007

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